Cottage’s Board of Directors provides direction for Cottage Health System. Board members serve without pay and guide the system in its mission to provide quality and affordable health care to the communities Cottage serves. The Foundations of Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital, Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, and Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital are governed by separate boards of directors.

2011 Officers   2011 / 2012 Board of Directors Gretchen Milligan, Chair Edward E. Birch, PhD, Vice Chair Robert C. Nakasone, Vice Chair Jeffrey L. Kupperman, MD, Secretary   Steve Ainsley J. Robert Andrews Margaret Baker Jon Clark Greg Faulkner Frederick W. Gluck Judith Hopkinson Angel Iscovich, MD Charles A. Jackson Alex Koper II, MD Fred Lukas Robert E.M. Nourse Elliot Prager, MD John Romo Marshall "Chip" Turner Thomas Watson, MD Ron Werft, President and Chief Executive Officer Steven Fellows, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Joan Bricher, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer