Attend the CMHS State of the Health System Address May 7  

Gary Wilde

Community Memorial Health System extends an invitation to the public to the 2015 State of the Health System Address taking place Thursday, May 7th at Ventura County Museum in Ventura, with presentations beginning at 5:30. Light refreshments will be available.

Gary Wilde, CMHS President & CEO, and Dr. Stanley Frochtzwajg, CMHS Chief Medical Officer, will discuss how the health system is doing. The address will include details on:

* Healthcare reform

* Updates on the building projects in Ventura and Ojai

* Community programs and services

* A financial update

Whisenhunt Communications congratulates Nan Drake, the Director of Governmental Affairs & Public Relations for Harrison Industries, and attorney Melissa H. Sayer from the Oxnard law firm of Arnold LaRochelle Mathews VanConas & Zirbel LLP (A to Z Law). Both women were named among the top 50 Women in Business in the Central Coast in a special section published March 27 by the Pacific Coast Business Times.

The Times annually selects 50 women from Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties to honor for their exceptional leadership in the business community. This is Drake's eighth consecutive year and Sayer's second year receiving this honor.

Nan Drake

Drake has a long history of serving on the boards of many local charitable organizations in addition to her 35-year-plus record of public service in Ventura County. She currently, or in the past, has served on the boards of the Ventura County Economic Development Association (VCEDA); the Ventura and Carpinteria Chambers of Commerce; the Economic Development Cooperative, Ventura County; the advisory committee of the Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance; and the Workforce Investment Board. She also co-chairs the Ventura St. Patrick's Day Parade. In January 2013, VCEDA presented Drake with its Carl Lowthrop Golden Eagle Award, the organization's highest honor given annually to the volunteer demonstrating exemplary character.

Drake served as a Ventura City Council member from 1985 to 1989 and during this term served as a board member of the Ventura County Regional Sanitation District. In 1988 she was appointed to the Los Angeles Region of the California Water Quality Board by Governor George Deukmejian and was reappointed in 1991. She also served on the Outer Continental Shelf Committee under the California Department of Environmental Affairs (1987-1989) and was instrumental in getting a large grant for the City of Ventura for Seaside Park.

Melissa H. Sayer

Sayer provides business counsel services to clients ranging from individual entrepreneurs and investors to mid-sized growth companies. She handles a variety of business related transactions from formation to complex business sales and reorganizations, to agriculture and water.

Sayer serves on the VCEDA board and on the Strategic Advisory Committee for Women's Economic Ventures (WEV), an organization that assists low-income women become financially independent through business ownership. She also serves as a business advisor providing pro bono legal advice to WEV participants and is a member of the faculty of the Ventura County Community Foundation Center for Non-Profit Leadership. She is a member of the CSU Channel Islands Business and Technology Partnership.