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Public Agency Managing Health Care For 200,000 South Coast Residents Celebrates Fifth Anniversary

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Some Gold Coast Health Plan employees pose for group photo during fifth anniversary celebration

It started as a small organization with two dozen employees set up as a public agency to manage Medi-Cal services for Ventura County residents, in effect serving as an HMO for them.

Now, Gold Coast Health Plan has more than 200,000 members, and a stable financial footing.

KCLU’s Lance Orozco reports the organization celebrated its fifth anniversary on Friday.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.