Former Riverside County Public Health Director Susan Harrington (left) will serve as Communities Lifting Communities’ executive director. HASC veteran Karen Ochoa (right) is CLC’s project manager.

This week, HASC welcomes a new executive director and program manager to leadership roles in its Communities Lifting Communities initiative aimed at closing gaps in Southern California health care.

Susan Harrington, a registered dietitian nutritionist who has worked in public health for 32 years is CLC’s first executive director. She is a former director of the Riverside County Department of Public Health and is a public and community health consultant.

Karen Ochoa is CLC’s first project manager. Ochoa has worked for HASC for over 14 years and most recently served as education manager for the association’s human resources services department.

Communities Lifting Communities, or CLC, is a public health initiative founded by HASC, HC2 Strategies and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California. The partners created CLC to build a bridge between the health care delivery system and public health to improve community health and reduce health disparities.

CLC will work to align HASC member hospitals, public health departments and community efforts to reduce health disparities in three key focus areas including: diabetes, homelessness and pre-term birth outcomes in targeted regions across Southern California.

Contact:                                                                    
Susan Harrington
CLC Executive Director
(213) 538-0717
sharrington@hasc.org

Karen Ochoa
CLC Project Manager
(213) 538-0765
kochoa@hasc.org