NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) announced that pediatrician Jeffrey Ribordy has been selected as the new regional medical director for Humboldt-Del Norte-Western Trinity counties.  

He will be working two days per week in PHC’s future Eureka office, starting in September.

Dr. Ribordy has worked for the past 15 years at Eureka Pediatrics, a rural health clinic with offices in Eureka and McKinleyville.  

He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, and completed his residency at Children’s Hospital in Oakland. He has a master's of public health from the University of California at Berkeley.

He has served in a number of leadership roles in the medical community, including serving on the credentials and medical executive committees at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, the North Coast Health Information Network Board of Directors, Changing Tides Family Services Board of Directors, and the Public Service and Medical Ethics Committee of the Humboldt-Del Norte Medical Society. He is well-respected and well-liked by physicians and non-physicians in the community.

Dr. Ribordy’s major responsibilities will include utilization management reviews, representing PHC in the local medical community, and communication with physicians around quality improvement and utilization management activities.  

Partnership HealthPlan of California is the county organized health system selected by the state of California to provide a Medi-Cal Managed Care delivery system to eight new counties, starting on Sept. 1, 2013.  

The new counties are Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, Siskiyou, Shasta, Modoc, Lassen and Lake. The organization currently serves six counties: Solano, Napa, Yolo, Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino.

Partnership HealthPlan of California began operating in 1994. Additional information about PHC can be found at www.partnershiphp.org .