Irma Cota, MPH
President & Chief Executive Officer
Irma Cota is the President & CEO of North County Health Services, a non-profit community healthcare organization with 9 sites in north San Diego County. The organization, under Ms.Cota’s direction, provides comprehensive health services to over 58,000 individuals each year. Ms. Cota has over twenty-seven years of experience in medical group management, program planning, grant writing, finance and operational management in both the public and private sector, and has acquired a reputation as a “hands-on” manager with strong business ethics, high standards and a dedication to excellence.
Irma Cota has a Master in Public Health degree from San Diego State University, Certificate in Health Care Executive Leadership from the University of California at San Diego, and Certificate in Leadership for Healthcare Executives from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She specializes in healthcare access issues of the uninsured and underinsured. Her expertise is well noted and sought after in the healthcare community.
Ms. Cota serves on the Board of Trustees of the Alliance Healthcare Foundation; she is a member of the President’s Advisory Board at the California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) and Board of the California Primary Care Association based in Sacramento. In addition, Ms. Cota serves on the Board of Directors for the National Cooperative Bank and its subsidiary, NCB – Impact.
Irma is active in addressing social, health and educational inequities through various organized efforts locally and throughout the State. At the national level, she was selected as one of 300 Hispanic Leaders to the 2002 National Congressional Hispanic Leadership Summit.