THE LATEST: In January, Adventist Health Glendale was one of five Los Angeles-area hospitals and one of roughly 300 nationwide to receive a five-star rating for the highest across-the-board quality performance from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that administers Medicare programs.



BACKGROUND: Issai joined Adventist Health Glendale in July 2018 as the first woman and first Armenian to lead the hospital. Previously, she was chief operating officer at Keck Medical Center of USC, UC Irvine Health and Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Before that, she was chief financial officer and chief strategy officer at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles and vice president of finance at City of Hope. Issai is a board member of the American Heart and Stroke Association and has served on Adventist Health Glendale's ongoing medical missions to Armenia. Originally founded as sanitarium in 1905, the 515-bed hospital was acquired by Adventist Health in 2015.



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