A thriving and resilient nonprofit organization, particularly one situated in the healthcare sector, relies on a leadership team with diverse and relevant backgrounds and skillsets to guide its growth, development, and evolution. A passion for the work is an essential prerequisite.
Exemplifying these attributes, we are proud to profile our two newest additions to the ACC Board of Directors; Betsy Donovan and Brent Luu. Betsy Donovan joined the ACC Board of Directors on July 1, 2021, and brings over thirty years of experience in skilled nursing, administration, and adult healthcare expertise. While Betsy’s invaluable experience as Eskaton’s Chief Operating Officer and her many years as a licensed Skilled Nursing Administrator check every box in terms of relevant professional expertise, it is her passion for older adult care that comes through when you speak with her about ACC’s work.
Betsy describes her 93-year-young mother as an independent, tech-savvy, and healthy adult living her best life. Betsy’s love and appreciation of older adults have been a motivator her entire life, shaping her views of aging and longevity. In this way, Betsy says ACC’s mission resonates deeply with her. She admires ACC’s connection to community and its diversity of innovative services and programs designed to support older adults and meet them where they live.
Betsy’s connection to ACC is not new; as a former member of the founding Board of Directors for Meals on Wheels by ACC, her support for ACC dates back more than a decade, and her return to a leadership role in the organization is to be celebrated indeed!
Brent Luu joined the ACC Board of Directors on January 1, 2022, and brings over twenty years of pharmacology expertise, in practice as a Clinical Pharmacist as well as education in his current capacity as a professor teaching the Foundation of Pharmacology at the UC Davis School of Nursing.
Brent’s appreciation for the marvels of modern medicine took root in his childhood admiration of his father’s work as an herbalist and acupuncturist. He is absolutely enthusiastic in his description of how medication works in the body, providing cure and treating symptoms in such a simple but incredibly effective way. I can attest that, even after a mere thirty-minute conversation with Brent, I am left with a certainty that any student of his will enter their career in the healing arts with a passion for quality care.
Quality of care is core to Brent’s philosophy, and what he finds so inspirational in ACC’s work. Like ACC, Brent recognizes that we are positioned to attend to the needs of a growing population of older adults, and he is determined to help guide ACC’s work to provide quality and compassionate care for this community.
Members of ACC’s Board of Directors are volunteers, giving of their time and expertise to serve the organization. Betsy and Brent each exemplify the spirit of volunteerism at its finest, and ACC is not the only organization to have the good fortune of their support.
Betsy and her sisters are founding partners of the Sunshine Family Outreach Center, a 501(c)(3) community benefit organization providing community and educational services to North Highlands neighborhoods.
Brent is a member of the Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation, serving as the Sacramento Deputy Medical Coordinator. This foundation is a non-government organization that focuses on education, humanistic culture, disaster relief, medicine, and environmental protection.
Learn more about each of these nonprofit community service organizations at https://sunshinefamilyoutreach.center and https://tzuchi.us/what-we-do
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