
In a time when calling healthcare "broken" or too profit-driven feels sadly commonplace, my goal is to ensure marginalized and low-income populations receive seamless, equitable, trauma-informed care. I specialize at bringing innovative and impactful, yet undervalued care models for the underserved to the forefront of healthcare, giving health systems, CBO's, and payers the knowledge, know-how, and ROI needed. In other words, health equity. Clients of Just Whole Care (JWC) improve their impact and transform systems. They've also earned hundreds of millions from Medicaid, government, commercial plans, investors, and donors along the way. Together we drive health equity via - * novel care and community support integration * data use transformation * value-based payment positioning * strategic clinical and cross-sector partnerships * advanced business development * intelligent digital strategy, and * policy & regulatory influence. JWC's clinical and executive expertise span primary care, behavioral health, perinatal health, and public health. We uniquely leverage grassroots AND tree tops to power creative, sustainable, whole-person care. Our impact - 💰developed the business case for nationally integrating behavioral health, care coordination and parenting support in pediatrics, which raised over $85M, became Medi-Cal's new 'dyadic services' benefit, and set a course for 1 million at-risk families to thrive annually by 2032 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦secured over $90M to train and reimburse providers for Adverse Childhood Experiences screening and response in low-income communities, and advised the US' first statewide investments in trauma-informed networks of care and precision medicine research – over 2 million children, adults, and families have been screened to date through Medi-Cal 📱launched the US' premier 911 call diversion program keeping officers out of mental health crises, and secured $50M to scale 988 – today saving hundreds of thousands of lives and equitably connecting many more to mental health and substance use care 📣garnered national visibility for mental health equity through spokeswoman Selena Gomez boosting our parity-affirming #mentalhealthishealth message; she then met with US Surgeon General Murthy and President Biden who now say it too! If you're ready to bundle strategy, care design, and financial success with deep caring for happier, healthier patients and professionals, drop me a line! Or schedule a complimentary 30-minute strategy session via justwholecare.com to boost your org's untapped growth potential.
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
CEO, Principal
Just Whole Care
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Jan 2012 - Present
Greater Los Angeles Area
Surgeon General’s Trauma-Informed Primary Care Implementation Advisory Committee Member
State of California
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Jun 2019 - Present
Senior Medical Advisor
Mahmee
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Feb 2019 - Present
Chief Executive Officer
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
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Jul 2020 - May 2022
Maternal and Infant Health Expert Workgroup Member
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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May 2019 - Dec 2020
Founder
latchMD
Sep 2013 - Jul 2019
Greater Los Angeles Area
Founder
latchME
Jan 2013 - Jul 2019
Worldwide
Co-founder, Investigator
LATCH NOW: Lactation Advocacy and Training at CHLA, HPMC, and Network of WIC’s
Jun 2009 - Nov 2015
Los Angeles, CA