Incumbents Bholat, Chun, challenger Martin vie for two BCHD board seats
by Garth Meyer Two incumbents and a challenger compete for two seats on the Beach Cities Health District Board of Directors in the November 8 election. Dr. Michelle Bholat is up for consideration for her third, four-year term, while Dr. Noel Chun has served on the board since 2006. The challenger is Michael Kelly Martin, a retired aerospace systems engineer/manager. The Beach Cities Health District, originally formed as the Beach Cities Hospital District in 1955 to build the former South Bay Hospital, is a non-profit entity focused on preventive health in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach. Dr. Michelle Bholat, incumbent Dr. Bholat, a professor at UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine in Family Practice – and a physician in Santa Monica – has been on the BCHD board since 2014. Bholat lives in the North Redondo Beach home her grandfather built in 1940. She graduated from Aviation High School, went to Cal State Long Beach for a degree in zoology and chemistry and U.C. Irvine for medical school. She began serving the BCHD on the Strategic Planning Committee. “I didn’t know a lot about the Health District but I knew about the hospital,” Bholat said. “I thought it was a…
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