California Healthcare Institute Hires Hiar

Lo Isidro, senior director at Real Chemistry with more than a decade of strategic communications and PA experience, has joined Narrative Strategies.

Nelson Fernandez, former North American chair of APCO Worldwide and managing director of Burson-Marsteller, has joined Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires as director of communications and PA.

Lilit Bargar, who was most recently an EVP in the healthcare practice at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at GCI Health as EVP, corporate practice lead.

JPA Health has been awarded a multi-year, multimillion-dollar contract to support a national mental health and substance abuse prevention campaign for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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