L.A. Care at a Glance

L.A. Care Health Plan serves the Medi-Cal population of Los Angeles County, ensuring the delivery of quality health care services. Our providers and partners strive for cultural sensitivity and speak the same languages as our members.

Nation's largest publicly-governed health plan: L.A. Care Health Plan is a non-profit, community accountable health maintenance organization (HMO). We serve more than 750,000 people who participate in the Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, CaliforniaKids and Healthy Kids programs, making us one of California's largest health plans.

Local leadership: Our employees, board and advisory committee members have a unique commitment to L.A. Care and our health plan members. Most, if not all, of us live and work in the cities and communities of L.A. County. Our health plan members are our neighbors. We care about the same things they do, including healthy living and thriving communities.

Executives:

Howard A. Kahn Chief Executive Officer
Mark Windisch, Esq. Senior Advisor
Elaine Batchlor, M.D., MPH Chief Medical Officer
Augustavia Haydel, Esq. Chief Legal Officer
Dorothy Seleski Chief of Managed Care Operations
W. Randy Stone Chief Financial Officer
Don Gerdts Chief Information Officer

Governance:We are governed by 13 board members who represent medical and health care professionals and Medi-Cal consumers. Several committees advise the board. These include a health care professionals committee, a children's health committee and an Executive Community Advisory Committee which represents 11 Regional Community Advisory Committees composed of health plan members, advocates and medical professionals.