Healthcare Visionary Award Honorees
Sutter Health Great San Francisco
Will Douglas, Jodi Nerell and Shalini Rana
For our 2026 Healthcare Visionary Award, we want to spotlight and appreciate Sutter Health’s generous longstanding partnership with HealthRIGHT 360 and their visionary grantmaking to ensure that the most vulnerable receive the services they need. We also want to recognize Will, Jodi and Shali for their longtime commitment to healthcare and HealthRIGHT 360’s work as we give San Francisco’s lowest income citizens the wraparound care they need to get better.
Sutter Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system dedicated to providing comprehensive care throughout California. Committed to advancing innovative patient care, healthy outcomes and community partnerships, Sutter Health is pursuing a bold new plan to reach more people and make excellent healthcare more connected and accessible. Currently serving more than 3.5 million patients, thanks to our dedicated team of more than 60,000 employees and clinicians, and 14,000+ affiliated physicians, with a unified focus on expanding care to serve more patients.
Sutter delivers exceptional and affordable care through its network of hospitals, medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care clinics, telehealth, home health, and hospice services. Dedicated to transforming healthcare, at Sutter Health, getting better never stops.
Learn more about how Sutter Health is transforming healthcare at sutterhealth.org and vitals.sutterhealth.org
Will Douglas is the Director of Community Health for Sutter Health’s Greater San Francisco region, where he supports partnerships and develops strategic initiatives that address critical community health needs and strengthen the continuum of care across the communities Sutter serves. He has over 15 years of experience working with hospitals, public agencies, and nonprofit partners to advance health equity and access to care. He has worked with HealthRIGHT 360 to bring care into vulnerable neighborhoods through the Mobile Medical Clinic project led by Korinne Yurick and Dr. Ana Valdes. Previously, Will led the grantmaking program at Saint Francis Foundation and oversaw client services for a public health informatics company supporting communities nationwide. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of California, Davis.
Jodi Nerell, LCSW is the Director Community Health, Mental Health & Addiction Services for Sutter Health. In her role, she facilitates cross-sector (hospital, managed-care plans, CBO, NPOs, counties) and interdisciplinary partnerships (peers supports, CHWs, RNs, MDs, clinicians) to better serve the behavioral health needs of our community. This includes addressing opportunities for innovation in the community setting specific to mental health and addiction- addressing ongoing systematic, programmatic, and operational issues for populations with complex health/social needs who are often faced with seeking care in acute settings due to lack of availability to or access to, outpatient behavioral health care.
Shalini Rana is Senior Director of Community Health for the Bay Area,. where she leads Sutter Health’s strategy to strengthen regional partnerships, drive measurable impact through community investments, and ensure deep alignment with the needs and priorities of local communities.Before joining Sutter, Shalini served in the Office of the Mayor of San Francisco as the Assistant Chief of Health, Homelessness, and Family Services, and previously as Health and Human Services Policy Advisor. In these roles, she advised the Mayor on a broad range of public health, behavioral health, and homelessness strategies—leading high-profile initiatives to improve systems of care and enhance services for the City’s most vulnerable residents.Prior to her public sector leadership, Shalini served as Chief Program & Evaluation Officer at Metta Fund, where she led grantmaking strategies focused on healthy aging, social connection, and trauma prevention. She has also held roles, earlier in her career, at The San Francisco Foundation, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and Computer Sciences Corporation (now DXC Technology), where she contributed to health system redesign and policy evaluation efforts. Shalini holds a Master of Public Health in Health Administration and Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Studies and Global Cultural Competency, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
