Oct 27, 1995

First Choice Health

First Choice Health, a Seattle-based regional network of 64 hospitals and nearly 6,400 health care providers, has named Dr. Ricord B. Winstead as vice president and medical director. He succeeds First Choice Health founding medical director Dr. Anna Chavelle, who has retired. Winstead currently serves as associate regional chief of staff for the North district of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Previously, he served as medical director of the Puget Sound Division of QualMed Health Plan and as medical director of Cigna Health Plan of Washington.

Relta Gray Associates

Relta Gray Associates executive Jeff Christensen has been named as an associate of the Seattle public relations firm. Christensen joined RGA in February 1994 and has been responsible for marketing and advertising for local and national accounts. He came to the company following a communications position with Egghead Software.

Toll Free Cellular

Seattle's Toll Free Cellular, a provider of toll-and airtime-free service for cellular telephones, has hired Jim David as its vice president of sales. David most recently was a vice president at Seattle-based software development company Aldus Corp., and before that, was Egghead Discount Software's senior vice president/general manager of corporate and government sales.

Clothier & Head

Certified public accountants Clothier & Head, Seattle, has added Debra Weller as network support technician, Randall Faber as senior accountant, and Carri Owsley, Dante John Driver and Thomas Ederer as new staff accountants.

Chamber of Commerce

Loretta Pain has been named general manager of the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce. Pain has served as the branch manager and assisted with the inauguration of a start up branch of Sterling Savings Bank in Burien. She also has been on the chamber's board of directors and co-chair of the group's Burien Government Affairs Committee.

Cloud Public Relations

Bellevue-based Cloud Public Relations Inc. has received a Telly Award for its SCAN remarketing/training video developed for Electronic Transaction Corp., the nation's largest check loss prevention company. The international competition honors non-network television commercials and programs as well as non-broadcast video and film productions. Cloud Public Relations manages communications programs in professional and financial services, high-technology, telecommunications, commercial real estate, health care, retail and nonprofit.

Oct 24, 1995

Managed Care Washington

Seattle-based Managed Care Washington, a statewide managed behavioralhealth care company, has named Cheryl Jacobson as new director of an employee assistance program (EAP), offering employees and employers a way to deal with work-related problems through a statewide network of behavioral health care services. Jacobson joins the company with 15 years of experience in behavioral health services. She was most recently with Human Affairs International as supervisor of outpatient clinical services. Prior experiences includes serving as program manager and supervisor in the Homebuilders Division of Behavioral Sciences Institute and as case manager and program director with Childhaven, a therapeutic child care program in Seattle.

The Melby-Cameron Company

The Edmonds-based Melby-Cameron Company, an association management firm, has added two members to its staff. Robin L. Barry has been hired as an account executive. She has eight years of association management experience gained by serving as an account executive for two other association management firms located in North Carolina. Graphic Designer Dawn Endean has been brought in to head the newly created publications department. Her professional background includes working as a freelance designer and serving as a graphics coordinator for Shoreline Community College.

Paper Scissors & Stone Inc.

Designers Scott Cameron and Lisa Ewing have formed a new corporation, Paper Scissors & Stone Inc., a studio located at the base of Queen Anne Hill, in Seattle, and focusing on retail concepts, office interiors, graphics and product design. Cameron was a founding partner of Buffalo Design Inc. where he worked for eight years. Last year, Cameron left interior design to concentrate on the development of BuffaloStuff, a wholesale company with products for the home and garden which have sold in retail stores around the country. Ewing was with Buffalo Design for four years before taking a sabbatical in Spain. Since returning she has worked with Starbuck's retail planning group and as a freelance consultant.