Martha Orr

Martha Orr served 30 years on the Northbay Healthcare System Board of Directors, and was an active Guild volunteer dedicated to bringing and maintaining a community hospital to Solano County.

Recalls Martha Orr, Guild president in 1965, and member of lntercommunity's Board of Directors: "The Guild has always been a strong entity unto itself, and has carried on. lntercommunity's growth has been steady and at times, spectacular. Back in the early 1960's when Fairfield's and Vacaville's populations were only about 5,000, we knew most of the patients in those 32 beds. Now we have 108 beds and more than 400 employees. That's quite a change!"

Martha not only demonstrated the power of volunteering, she gave it permanence as a charter member of the first volunteer Guild. Martha joined the Central Solano Intercommunity Hospital Guild (later to become the NorthBay Guild) in 1957, and nine years later became its president. By 1970 she begins her service on the hospital's Board of Directors, which she continued until 2000. She remained a Guild volunteer until 2003, when Martha ended her nearly 50 year commitment to the hospital as she sadly passed on Christmas Day.

Martha served on the following boards:
Director, Intercommunity Hospital Board of Directors: February 1970 to February 1986
Secretary, Intercommunity Hospital Board of Directors: June 1975 to June 1986
Director, NorthBay Hospital Group Board of Directors: May 1987 to November 1995
Director and Secretary/Treasurer, Northbay Healthcare Corporation Board of Directors: May 1987 to May 2000
Corporate Member, Northbay Healthcare Corporation Board of Directors