Top Organizations for Diversity - 2021

CareOregon is not-for-profit health plan serving more than 450,000 members in the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program, as well as Medicare Advantage members.

Under board and executive leadership: CareOregon was able to: 

• Include diversity, equity and inclusion metrics in its three-year strategic plan. Staff will be held accountable to these metrics, with financial bonus incentives connected to the organization’s ability to meet specific strategic goals in this space. 
• Establish a DEI steering committee, made up of staff and executive leadership. The committee makes recommendations on training and curriculum in an effort to support continued staff development. 
• Develop a population health strategy that relies on data segregation to better identify both high-risk populations as well as populations experiencing significant disparities compared with data from the rest of the membership.