Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner
I believe serving on the GHC-SCW Board is the best way for me to contribute to health care quality in our community. Serving my first term on the board gave me invaluable insight into the challenges and opportunities that confront GHC. I came to the board with high expectations, but I’ve found GHC to be even more unique, special and important than I had realized. The last few years have been both challenging and enlightening as we’ve worked to ensure the patient-first focus of the cooperative and remain true to its ideals and vision, while also providing the fiscal and managerial foundation necessary for the organization to survive and thrive in an incredibly complex, demanding and competitive health care environment. On a personal level I’m living through the impact of chronic illness on my own family, so the GHC’s quality, patient focus and organizational stability are personal to me. Much of my professional experience bears directly on GHC-SCW’s work. As a lawyer, I worked with major health care providers to navigate legal compliance issues, studied member-owned cooperatives as a researcher for the Filene Research Institute. My financial experience also includes being the Vice President of Lending Services at Forward Community Investments. I have extensive non-profit board experience having served on the board of Centro –Hispano, Supporting Families Together Association, Madison Youth Choirs and LOV Dane. I currently serve on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletic Board My breadth of experience is my most valuable asset. I’ve worked in multiple countries problem solving alongside people as diverse as corporate business owners (as a lawyer), indigenous tribe members (as an anthropologist) and students from every background and walk of life (as a professor). Those experiences help me bring a unique perspective to bear on difficult questions that require creative problem-solving, discretion and judgment. Finally, as a multi-racial person who grew up in a single parent home in small-town Wisconsin, lived overseas for many years as an anthropologist, and raised my children in a Spanish bilingual home, the breadth of my personal experiences gives me perspective on people from many walks of life.