Members: 242,140
Membership Growth
Fiscal Years 2015–2025
Membership by Supervisorial District
Membership by
Age
Membership by
Spoken Languages
Membership by
Aid Category
Who We Serve
1 in 2
Ventura County children (ages 0–5)
1 in 3
Ventura County residents
1 in 6
Ventura County seniors
Our Provider Network*
488 Primary Care Providers
7,142 Specialists**
24 Hospitals
19 Acute Care Hospitals
5 Tertiary Hospitals
1,072 Behavioral Health Providers
483 Other Service Providers
*Most recent data approved by the state Department of Health Care Services (DHCS).
**Specialists who work in multiple locations are counted once.
Quality Services
2024 Measurement Year (MY) Gold Coast Health Plan (GCHP) Performance Highlights
- GCHP reported 39 quality of care measures to the state Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
- GCHP reported improvement in eight measures, most notably well-child visits in the first 15 months of life, follow-up after an emergency department visit for alcohol and other drug abuse and dependence, and child and adolescent well-care visits.
- Of the 15 measures held to the minimum performance level (50th Medicaid HMO percentile ranking established by NCQA Quality Compass®), 11 measures met or exceeded the 50th NCQA percentile.
- GCHP scored in the 90th NCQA percentile for the Timelines of Prenatal Care and Postpartum Care.
- GCHP scored in the 75th NCQA percentile for the Hemoglobin A1C-Poor Control.
- GCHP successfully passed the NCQA Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) Compliance Audit™ for the 11th consecutive year.
Governance
Felix Nuñez, MD
Chief Executive Officer
Paul Aguilar
Chief of Human Resources and Organizational Performance
Theodore Bagley
Chief Diversity Officer
Erik Cho
Chief Policy and Program Officer
James Cruz, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Sara Dersch
Chief Finance Officer
Robert Franco
Chief Compliance Officer
Eve Gelb
Chief Innovation Officer
Alan Torres
Chief Information and System Modernization Officer
Marlen Torres
Chief Member Experience and External Affairs Officer
Matt LaVere
Chair of the Board, District 1
Jeff Gorell
Supervisor, District 2
Kelly Long
Vice Chair of the Board, District 3
Janice S. Parvin
Supervisor, District 4
Vianey Lopez
Supervisor, District 5
Laura Espinosa Chair
Consumer Representative
Dee Pupa Vice Chair
Ventura County Health Care Agency
Anwar Abbas
Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc.
Allison Blaze, MD
Ventura County Health Care Agency
James Corwin
Community Memorial Health System
Jaime Duncan
Ventura County Human Services Agency
Vianey Lopez
Ventura County Board of Supervisors
Anna Monroy
Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc.
Timothy Myers
Los Robles Regional Medical Center
Sara Sanchez
County of Ventura
Scott Underwood, DO
Oceanview Medical Specialists
Scott H. Campbell
BB&K Law
Ruben Juarez Chairperson
Ventura County Health Care Agency, Whole Person Care
Pablo Velez Vice Chairperson
Amigo Baby, Inc.
Frisa Herrera
Casa Pacifica
Martha Johnson
Ventura County Health Care Agency
Laurie Hall Jordan
Rainbow Connection / Tri-Counties Regional Center
Rose MacKay
Elaine Martinez
Ventura County Human Services Agency
Juana Quintal
Rafael Stoneman
Gold Coast Veterans Foundation
Masood Babaeian
Ventura Transit System, Inc.
Amelia Breckenridge, MD
Ventura County Health Care Agency
Molly Corbett
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association
Claudia Gallard
Clinicas del Camino Real, Inc.
Katy Krul
Oxnard Family Circle
Amanda Larson
Mission Healthcare
Sim Mandelbaum
Coastal View Health Care
Milad Pezeschki, MD
Adventist Health
Vincent Pillard
Slate Bistro
Josie Roemhild
Carelon Behavioral Health
Kristine Supple
Community Memorial Health System
Pablo Velez
Amigo Baby, Inc.