Marjorie Ginsburg, MPH
Executive Director

Not one to be pinned down too early, Marge attended six colleges in 18 years. As an RN, she drifted from a hospital ED to the United Farm Workers, Peace Corps in Nepal, a free clinic in Philly, home care nurse in Baltimore and San Francisco. Deciding she wanted to run things, Marge earned an MPH at UC Berkeley. She started an adult day health center, then was program administrator at the S.F. Institute on Aging. The 1989 earthquake convinced her husband to move to Sacramento, so she tagged along. There she discovered the health decisions movement (perhaps less a movement than a philosophy). After a brief stint with California Health Decisions, she founded Sacramento Healthcare Decisions in 1994.  In 2009, CHCD changed its name to the Center for Healthcare Decisions.

Marge served in 2011 on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Essential Health Benefits. She currently serves on NCQA’s Committee on Performance Measurement and the boards of the Integrated Healthcare Association; California Hospital Assessment & Reporting Task Force (CHART); California Technology Assessment Forum; and the California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative.

Kathy Glasmire, BA
Associate Director

A child of the 60s who grew up in a small Ohio town, Kathy was impatient to get on with her life. She left college at age 19, married at 20 and moved to California at 22. Newly arrived in Sacramento, she took a position with the Community Services Planning Council, and a career with non-profit community-based organizations was born. Kathy spent the next 20 years honing her skills in community outreach, planning and organization. One of her most intriguing positions was with Sacramento′s first health decisions project in the late 80s. Issues of death and dying, the appropriate use of medical technology and cost containment were hot topics. The more things change …!

In 1997 Kathy joined CHCD, where she has implemented its multi-program initiative to improve end-of-life care. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (chair 2007-08) and co-chaired the Compassionate Care Alliance of the Greater Sacramento Region from 2002-10.

Kathy has her B.A. in Humanities and Religious Studies. Her husband Larry is retired from CSUS. They have been happily married for 38 years and have a daughter, Laurel, who is a teacher in Portland, Oregon.

Position available: Program Associate