{"id":6202,"date":"2013-02-22T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2013-02-22T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:34:49","slug":"la-comunidad-hispana-announces-new-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6202","title":{"rendered":"La Comunidad Hispana announces new hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6203\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6203\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6203 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Jones will begin her new job as chief operating officer of La Comunidad Hispana on March 11.\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Image-24.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alisa Jones will begin her new job as chief operating officer of La Comunidad Hispana on March 11.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Bilingual, West Grove resident tapped as chief operating officer<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>La Comunidad Hispana announced Thursday that it has named \u00a0Alisa Jones as its chief operating officer.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who is bilingual, comes to La Comunidad Hispana from\u00a0the Delaware Division of Public Health, where she worked\u00a0as bureau chief and section chief, overseeing health promotion\/disease prevention programs in the areas of cancer, diabetes and other chronic illnesses, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from California State University and a master\u2019s in public health from San Diego State University, the release said.\u00a0 Early on, she was a medical assistant and health educator and spent several years as a consultant to Community Health Centers, including San Ysidro Health Center in San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Jones, who lives in West Grove, will begin her new position at the Kennett Square facility on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to have someone with Alisa\u2019s experience join us in an executive position at LCH,\u201d Margarita Queralt Mirkil, La Comunidad\u2019s president and chief executive officer, said in the \u00a0release. \u201cOur organization is expanding and her help will help us as we transition LCH in the coming years. She has a wealth of experience in all aspects of healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Comunidad Hispana was established in 1973 as a community-based nonprofit organization to empower immigrants and low-income residents in Chester County to stay healthy, build strong families and lead productive, fulfilling lives. For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacomunidadhispana.org\/\">www.lacomunidadhispana.org<\/a> or call 610-444-7550, ext. 242.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilingual, West Grove resident tapped as chief operating officer La Comunidad Hispana announced Thursday that it has named \u00a0Alisa Jones as its chief operating officer. Jones, who is bilingual, comes to La Comunidad Hispana from\u00a0the Delaware Division of Public Health, where she worked\u00a0as bureau chief and section chief, overseeing health promotion\/disease prevention programs in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1897,16,1168,1170],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alisa-jones","tag-kennett-square","tag-la-comunidad-hispana","tag-margarita-queralt-mirkil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}