In Memoriam: Lois Salisbury, First Health Access Board Chair

It is with sadness that we report the death last month of Lois Salisbury, 79, a longtime advocate on health and other social justice issues and founding Board Chair of Health Access. 

Lois had helped to lead the predecessor coalition to Health Access, a coalition committed to ending “patient dumping”, the practice where doctors and hospitals denied patients emergency care unless they could produce proof of insurance.  

Out of that coalition, Health Access was founded to fight for quality, affordable health care for all Californians. Lois was a nearly full-time Board chair during those early years, starting in the late 1980s, when Health Access was just starting up, and both the name and that description needed to be chosen. In those years, Health Access had a single board serving both the Health Access Foundation and our (c)(4), Health Access California.  

She went on to serve as Executive Director of one of our close partners Children Now, who remains a part of Health Access California’s board.  

We at Health Access are forever indebted to Lois and the vision she had to create our organization, which has now served California health consumers for nearly 40 years.  

Here is the obituary posted on Legacy.Com and run in the San Francisco Chronicle:  

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/lois-salisbury-obituary?id=62059624  

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