Passanisi joins the organization from her previous position as Central Business Office Manager and Admissions Manager for the Central Valley Sutter Health organization. She was born in Santa Barbara and has worked in both southern and northern California.

Her prior business experience has been as an office manager for physicians and working as a supervisor for a Provident Life and Accident insurance company before her most recent position with Sutter Health.

The Stanislaus County Health Services Agency (HSA) is an outpatient medical system with 9 medical offices located throughout Stanislaus County. The HSA operates the Public Health Department, an Urgent Care Center and multiple programs serving over 400,000 patients and clients each year in Stanislaus County. The HSA also is in local partnerships for the MOMobile project and the Stanislaus Family Practice Residency Program. The HSA has extensive community health information available at its web site www.schsa.org