News Release
August 2, 2000
Contact: IHA (925) 746-5100
bcarter@iha.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IHA NAMES MARTHA MARSH, CURTIS TERRY TO BOARD
WALNUT
CREEK, CA – The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), a statewide
leadership group active in health care policy and managed care issues, announces
the appointment of Martha H. Marsh
chief operating officer at UC Davis Health System and director of hospital and
clinics at UC Davis Medical Center, and Curtis
L. Terry, vice president, network development and management, Blue Cross of
California, to its Board of Directors.
Marsh is responsible for overall management of the health system, an
integrated, academic health system encompassing the medical center, the UC Davis
School of Medicine, and the UC Davis Medical Group.
She oversees UC Davis Medical Center’s 528-bed, acute-care hospital and
all its affiliated outpatient centers, including a primary care network of
physician practices in 13 northern California communities.
From 1994 until she joined UC Davis last year, Marsh was senior vice
president for professional services and managed care at University of
Pennsylvania Health System. There,
she was responsible for managing faculty and physician practices, developing
managed care systems, and establishing a network of multispecialty satellite
clinics for the system of four owned hospitals and five affiliated hospitals. From 1986-1994, she was president and chief executive officer
of Matthew Thornton Health Plan in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Marsh earned an MPH in
health administration and an MBA in accounting at Columbia University.
She earned a BA in history at the University of Rochester.
Curtis Terry joined Blue Cross of California in 1997 as vice
president for network development and management, Northern California.
In this capacity, he is responsible for contracting and liaison
activities with physicians, hospitals, and medical groups throughout the
Northern California region.
Prior to joining Blue
Cross, Terry was president and chief operating officer of Adesso Specialty
Services Organization. Based in San
Jose, California, Adesso develops programs to support specialty physicians and
health plans. Terry has also held
vice president positions with TakeCare Health Plan and IPM Health Plan and
served as a consultant with Jurgovan and Blair, Inc. of Potomac, Maryland.
He received his BA
degree in zoology from UC Santa Barbara and conducted research work in the field
of biochemistry at the University of Nevada, Reno.
IHA (www.iha.org) is a statewide leadership group of health plans,
physician groups, and health care systems, plus at large academic, purchaser,
consumer, and pharmaceutical industry representatives, committed to
policy development, public dialogue, and special projects associated with the
continuing evolution of managed health care.
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