Mike Sullivan

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  "You can see how cruel that is to take dental care away from poor seniors and the disabled," said Michael Sullivan, executive director of Golden Valley Health Centers, a group of safety net clinics in Stanislaus and Merced counties.

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  "We need a system where everyone is blind to the payer source," said Mike Sullivan, CEO of Golden Valley Health Centers.

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  In Merced, north of Fresno, I met Mike Sullivan, CEO of the Golden Valley Health non-profit company, which operates 33 low cost clinics for uninsured and impoverished patients.
  
  Many of Golden Valley's clients are migrant farm workers or undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
  
  Describing the cuts approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sullivan said: "He cut medical benefits, he eliminated directly programs like the farmworkers' program and another program in California for poor uninsured Californians.
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  Sullivan said he is troubled by the attitude of the state government toward the people affected by the programs that have been cut. There was little debate or consideration of the effects the cuts would have on people's lives, he said.
  
  When I suggested that the word "abandonment" came to mind, Sullivan replied: "Yeah, that's a good way to frame it, I think."

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  In Merced, north of Fresno, I met Mike Sullivan, CEO of the Golden Valley Health non-profit company, which operates 33 low cost clinics for uninsured and impoverished patients.
  
  Many of Golden Valley's clients are migrant farm workers or undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
  
  Describing the cuts approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sullivan said: "He cut medical benefits, he eliminated directly programs like the farmworkers'
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  Sullivan said he is troubled by the attitude of the state government toward the people affected by the programmes that have been cut. There was little debate or consideration of the effects the cuts would have on people's lives, he said.
  
  When I suggested that the word "abandonment" came to mind, Sullivan replied: "Yeah, that's a good way to frame it, I think."

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  Published on: 8/15/2009    Last Visited: 8/15/2009  

  According to Michael Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of GVHC, the new site will bring medical care to a previously underserved area - and populace - of Turlock. However, Sullivan admits that there are still large segments of Stanislaus County's population in need of the sort of assistance GVHC offers - safety net medical help that turns no one away, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.

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  Published on: 8/24/2008    Last Visited: 8/24/2008  

  "We are getting into the area of $1 to $2 million that the state owes us already," said Mike Sullivan, chief executive officer of Golden Valley.
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  Golden Valley also is being helped by County Bank, Sullivan said.The bank has extended its line of credit from $1 million to $4 million, he said.
  
  "We've had to do these things to prepare ourselves for a long fall without a budget," Sullivan said.

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  Mike Sullivan, CEO, Golden Valley Health Centers

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  Published on: 9/12/2007    Last Visited: 11/19/2007  

  "It's a huge, huge problem," said Mike Sullivan.The chief executive officer of Golden Valley Health Centers said his clinics see more than 68,000 patients a year, and most are either uninsured or on Medi-Cal.
  
  Because Golden Valley is grant-funded, its clinics are able to see people who wouldn't be welcome anywhere else.
  
  Sullivan is worried that the numbers of uninsured patients are going to surge in the next few years."It's very simply becoming more unaffordable for individuals and for employers to pay for health insurance," Sullivan said."That leaves the safety net clinics like us to take care of people."
  
  Specialists out-of-bounds
  
  Although Golden Valley offers all types of health plans, from primary care to dental care, one problem that Sullivan has watched worsen for his patients is access to specialists.Because of low reimbursement rates, most specialists in Merced County refuse to see uninsured or Medi-Cal patients.Because of the refusal of specialists to see these people, the safety-net clinics are treating more and more extremely sick patients."It's very, very hard for the uninsured to see specialists.In some cases, it's almost impossible," Sullivan said.
  
  Patients end up being sent out of town -- to Modesto, Fresno and sometimes even San Francisco.Or they just keep seeing a primary care doctor, who struggles to take care of a very sick patient."The consequence is that a lot of the patients get incomplete care, no matter what we do," he added.
  
  One local primary care doctor who does see Medi-Cal patients faces formidable problems getting his patients in to see specialists.

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  Published on: 11/19/2007    Last Visited: 11/21/2007  

  Michael Sullivan, executive director of Golden Valley, said recent legislative proposals to expand coverage for the uninsured in California have not addressed the shortage of specialists.
  
  "Our state lawmakers seem to think as long as you give everyone an insurance card that access to care will be available to all, and that is a fallacy," he said.

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  Published on: 9/19/2006    Last Visited: 9/19/2006  

  Some of the money will be used for outreach since many of the seasonal workers don't even know the clinics are open to them, said Michael Sullivan, chief executive officer of Golden Valley Health Centers.
  
  "If we didn't have the grants, we couldn't meet our mission of serving the most vulnerable people," he said.

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