French Hospital Medical Center (FHMC) proudly announces the appointments of new board officers to its Community Board and Foundation Board.
Jim Copeland has been elected the new Chairman of the FHMC Community Board. He has served as the Community Board’s Secretary from July 2007- June 2009 and Vice-Chair from July 2009 - June 2011. Copeland is a longtime business leader, the founder of Copeland Sports and a founding sponsor of the Copeland, Forbes & Rossi Cardiac Care Center, the Christopher Cohen Performing Arts Center, and the San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum and has supported many community causes.
Sandy Dunn has been elected the Chairwoman of the FHMC Foundation Board. Dunn has served as the Foundation Vice-Chair from 2010-2011 and as a Co-Chair for the annual FHMC Gala and Fundraiser from 2007-2010. She also serves as a member of the Hearst Cancer Resource Center Advisory Committee. Dunn is a well recognized member of the community and has provided volunteer leadership and support to many area not-for-profit organizations.
Both Copeland and Dunn hold their new positions July 2011-June 2013. The Vice-Chair of the Community Board is now Ann Grant, R.N., Ph.D. and Kevin M. Rice is Secretary. Serving along with Dunn on the Foundation Board is Pierre Rademaker as Vice Chair and Patrick O’ Hara as both Secretary and Treasurer.
The role of the Community Board is to assure that the health services provided at the hospital are medically necessary, of high quality, safe, effective, efficient, and consistent with community standards. The board does this by overseeing the quality assessment, performance improvement, and patient-safety and utilization management activities of the hospital and by assuring that these activities are consistent with standards and policies and procedures established by the Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) Board of Directors and the CHW Quality Committee.
The FHMC Foundation is a non-profit public benefit organization with the purpose to raise funds for FHMC through charitable contributions for the betterment of community health care. The FHMC Foundation relies on the generosity of the community to help support hospital efforts of providing quality health care for local programs and services. The Foundation Board is made up of unpaid volunteers who donate their time and effort to raise funds for San Luis Obispo’s only not-for-profit hospital. Since its inception in 2005, the FHMC Foundation has raised over $12 million for patient care and services.
For more information on the Foundation Board, call the FHMC Foundation office at 805.542.6496 or e-mail
Debby.Nicklas@chw.edu.
