In May of 2010, Marcy shared with us the early stages of ValleyCare's ACO.  Marcy will give us an update on both their Primary Care ACO program, as well as several others that she has already launched, and others she is in the throes of launching, to bring better (and more innovative) care to the Valley.

BIO: Marcy Feit is President and CEO of ValleyCare Health System, which owns and operates health facilities on three campuses in Pleasanton and Livermore, with a total of 242 licensed inpatient beds and an array of inpatient and outpatient services, and a medical staff of over 300.

ValleyCare Health System has provided healthcare services in the Tri-Valley area since opening with 46 beds in Livermore in 1961. Today, in addition to its 167-bed hospital in Pleasanton, the System operates the ValleyCare Livermore campus, with 75 beds, and ValleyCare Medical Plaza, in Pleasanton, with an outpatient center, medical office building, cancer center, women's health center, and living arrangements for 600 seniors. The ValleyCare Health System's vision is "a center of clinical and service excellence.”

Marcy joined ValleyCare Health System in 1973, as a nurses aid, while still in nursing school. After earning her RN credentials, she worked in the critical care unit followed by a stint as the unit’s head nurse. A series of promotions to administrative positions followed and July 1997, Marcy was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of ValleyCare Health System. Since then, she's rebuilt the hospitals on both of the System's campuses, plus added the senior living facilities. In September 2005, California Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante appointed Marcy to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee overseeing California’s stem-cell research initiative, which was created when voters approved Proposition 71 in 2004.

Marcy was named one of the “Top 100 Business Women of the Year” by the San Francisco Business Times in 2003, 2004, and 2008, and one of the “Ten Most Powerful Women” by TriValley Magazine in 2005. She earned The Wharton School Fellowship in Health Care Leadership in 2005, and holds a Master’s Degree in Nursing Science and Administration. She is a member of many organizations, such as the Anthem Blue Cross Hospital Relations Committee, California Hospital Association Board of Trustees, California Integrated Systems Council, Cooperative Hospitals, Inc., Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, and Scientific & Medical Accountability Standards Working Group.