On March 20, 2008 Leona Butler, CEO of Santa Clara Family Health Plan
spoke on Children's Health in Santa Clara County
Mrs. Butler is a leader of the Children's Health Initiative (CHI), a community-based outreach and enrollment program, and developed and administers Healthy Kids, a locally funded insurance plan. These programs, whose mission is to provide health insurance for every child in Santa Clara County, provide coverage to children who do not qualify for public insurance. The programs, the first of their kind in the nation, were created by a public-private partnership that included SCFHP (Santa Clara Family Health Plan).
Additionally, Mrs. Butler has been actively involved in the Healthy Families program since its inception, and has worked to ensure that SCFHP be designated each year as the community provider plan for Santa Clara County.
Mrs. Butler spent three years with the California Legislature as the chief staff person on the Medi-Cal program during a time of major Medi-Cal reform and organized and administered a large medical group in San Francisco; now known as the California Pacific Medical Group. Mrs. Butler's health care experience started at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center where she held a variety of positions, starting as an analyst for the Chancellor and culminating as Principal Investigator for a grant to investigate ways to educate the public via television news.
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