Longtime DAP Health CEO David Brinkman to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce
The beloved leader will be recognized on June 20 at GCVCC’s Annual Installation and Business Awards Dinner.
Longtime DAP Health CEO David Brinkman, MBA, will be honored with the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Chairman John A. James Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s Annual Installation and Business Awards Dinner at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, to be held on the evening of June 20, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
DAP Health — a Centerpiece Sponsor of the event — celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024. The mission of the GCVCC includes fostering community growth, providing resources, and contributing to the overall well-being of the community. These goals are also at the heart of the work DAP Health has done for the last four decades. Indeed, the organization has clinics or Revivals retail resale stores in five of the cities included in the GCVCC: Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indio, and Palm Desert.
“In light of DAP Health currently celebrating 40 years of protecting and expanding health care access for every member of the diverse communities it serves, GCVCC is overjoyed to bestow this well-deserved recognition on DAP Health CEO David Brinkman, who has been at the helm of the organization for almost half its life," says GCVCC President/CEO Brandon Marley. “Our event's theme this year — 'A Look to the Future’ — is certainly apropos as he guides his entire team in using the hard-won experience they've earned since 1984 to build the path toward the next four decades and beyond.”
“I’m very honored to receive this award, at this time, from GCVCC,” says Brinkman. “Not just because I see my stewardship of DAP Health as my life’s work, but because the success we’ve achieved for the people in the Coachella Valley could not have been accomplished without the support and assistance of our community partners, many of which are businesses that are members of the Chamber. I can’t wait to thank you in person and to share my vision of DAP Health’s look to the future.”
About David Brinkman
CEO David Brinkman, MBA, has helmed internationally recognized nonprofit DAP Health — which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024 — for 17 years.
Landmark achievements under his impeccable leadership include onsite affording housing complex Vista Sunrise (for people living with HIV) on the Sunrise campus in Palm Springs, the first adult HIV specialty dental clinic in Riverside County, an official visit to the White House to celebrate the pioneering Get Tested Coachella Valley initiative, a sexual wellness clinic in Indio (eradicating barriers to accessing free STI testing and treatment in the Eastern Coachella Valley), the absorption of the Borrego Health system and its 24 locations and 70,000 patients, and the recent unveiling of second onsite affordable housing complex Vista Sunrise II (for unhoused individuals and those suffering from chronic illness) on the Sunrise campus.