ZOILA D. ESCOBAR
Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, AltaMed;
President AltaMed Foundation
Health Services, the nation’s largest independent federally qualified health center. Zoila Escobar oversees several critical administrative areas shaping nearly every dimension of the AltaMed experience to ensure that everyone AltaMed serves receives patient-centered care.
Dedicated to leveling disparities in health care for underserved Latino communities, Escobar has spent more than three decades in community health leadership, spearheading everything from grassroots initiatives to major policy changes at a national level to improve access to healthcare services. Escobar helps design innovative culturally competent programming to meet the complex health needs of the communities AltaMed serves. Escobar raises $40-46 million annually for AltaMed to fulfill its mission to provide quality health care, regardless of the ability to pay. Escobar also steers an employee-giving effort that engages AltaMed’s 3,000 employees to support patients with emergent non-medical needs.
