Monday, February 8, 2021

Mee Memorial Healthcare System’s Board appoints Two Physicians as New Trustees to Governing body

  Mee Memorial Healthcare System’s (MMHS) governing body has appointed two new members to its Board of Trustees, responsible for ensuring quality healthcare and financial wellbeing. 

King City, CA, February 08, 2021 - Mee Memorial Healthcare System’s (MMHS) governing body has appointed two new members to its Board of Trustees, responsible for ensuring quality healthcare and financial wellbeing.

 The new members include Dr. Moneesha Pinto, an Internist at the King City Clinic, and Dr. Noah Hawthorne, an Emergency Medicine physician at Mee Memorial.. The appointments add to the expertise, experience and diversity that make up the current board. Dr. Pinto will be named Chief of Staff. 

Dr. Pinto began working with MMHS in July 2017. Born in Mumbai, India, she had never been out of the country until moving to San Jose at age 16. Her grandaunt was one of India’s first female doctors. Having lost both her husband and child to Yellow Fever, she dedicated her life to treating women in distant villages without any healthcare options. 

Dr. Pinto did undergraduate work at Santa Clara University and went to medical school at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. She prefers the quiet pace of rural life and likes to travel, cook, eat, garden and read. 

Dr. Hawthorne received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine in 2013. He completed his Residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco’s School of Medicine in 2017. He loves travel, photography, scuba diving, mountain biking and cooking. 

About Mee Memorial Healthcare System

Of highest priority for the Mee Memorial Healthcare System (MMHS) is keeping our community healthy. This includes offering an extensive array of medical and preventative services with a commitment to the highest possible standards, the best available technology, and the care of skilled professionals. 

The Mee network includes a hospital in King City including emergency services, 25 acute care beds and 48 skilled nursing beds, and three comprehensive outpatient clinics; two adjacent to the hospital (Adult Medicine and the King City Clinic, for Internal, Pain and Family Medicine) and the Albert and Donna Oliveira Clinic, a full-service, primary care facility in the city of Greenfield. 

MMHS is the primary healthcare organization serving the rural communities of Southern Monterey County. Overall, our healthcare professionals serve a population of nearly 80,000 within an area spanning over 55 miles between the agricultural communities of Soledad to Bradley 

Learn more at meememorial.com/ortho or call (831) 385-6000. 


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