Equity Leaders

AltaMed Foundation Equity Leaders

Launched Spring 2023, the AltaMed Foundation Equity Leaders is an exclusive network of AltaMed’s most dedicated Champions. Equity Leaders are the driving force behind AltaMed Health Services’ mission to make quality healthcare accessible to all. By investing a minimum of $25,000 annually to support AltaMed Health Services programming, their help ensures AltaMed can continue to eliminate roadblocks to health care access by bringing convenient, culturally sensitive care directly to the communities that need it most.

Benefits

Equity leaders will receive the following expressions of gratitude throughout the year:

Exclusive updates by AltaMed leaders, medical briefings by providers and other behind-the-scenes access at select events
Recognition in donor listings as a AltaMed Foundation Equity Leaders member
Complimentary estate planning advisory session
A membership memento

Become an Equity Leader

If you are not already a member, we invite you to join or renew your Equity Leader membership today by making your annual gift of $25,000 or more to support AltaMed Health Services. Your gift helps advance health equity for our patients and the community members we serve by addressing the social determinants of health, expanding quality healthcare access for all and growing our medical education and healthcare workforce development programs. For more information, please contact [email protected]

Before Joining Youth Champions Program

After Joining Youth Champions Program

34% knew what it took to become a successful entrepreneur.

84% knew what it took to become a successful entrepreneur.

50% knew about careers in the STEM field.

87% knew about careers in the STEM Field.

14% agreed or strongly agreed that they knew successful entrepreneurs.

95% stated that they met successful entrepreneurs.

73% felt confident about facing problems.

92% felt confident about facing problems.

64% agreed or strongly agreed that they see barriers as opportunities.

92% stated that they learned to cope with their emotions to overcome barriers.

Equity Leader Gatherings

Fireside Chat: Building Pathways to Tackle the Nursing Shortage, November 2023

Equity Leaders joined the AltaMed Foundation Board of Trustees for an exclusive conversation on our efforts to tackle the critical nursing shortage. Two nurses, enrolled in AltaMed’s nursing pathway programs, shared their challenging yet rewarding career journeys. Attendees were among the first to learn about the AltaMed Nursing School Collaborative, an innovative new effort to educate the next generation of Latino nurses.

Previous Events

Fireside Chat: AltaMed Family Medicine Residency Program’s First Graduating Class, August 2023

Equity Leaders joined the AltaMed Foundation Board of Trustees to hear from two graduates of the AltaMed Family Medicine Residency program’s inaugural class. The graduates shared their inspirational journeys to becoming full-time AltaMed physicians. Leadership also spoke about the program’s vision and its pivotal role in delivering quality healthcare for those we serve.

Art, Culture and Health, May 2023

Equity leaders gathered at AltaMed’s Corporate Headquarters rooftop in Commerce to hear Senior Leadership, Associate Vice President and Chief Curator of the AltaMed Art Collection, Susana Smith Bautista, Ph.D., Chicana artist and member of Los Four Judithe Hernández, and Chicano painter Eloy Torrez, as they discuss the AltaMed Art Collection and its important connection to the history, mission and vision of our organization.

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