With more than 25,000 physicians serving 2.6 million patients across some of the most diverse communities in California, Oregon and Washington, Optum Pacific West (with more than 11,000 employees) is the largest region in the Optum Health enterprise and understands the importance of cultural relevance in delivering high-quality health care and is dedicated to ensuring that its leadership, physicians, and care teams reflect the communities it serves.
At Optum, DEI extends beyond company culture and workplace well-being, it is embedded in how the organization does business — both internally, as a part of the decision-making process among its leadership and teammates; and externally, to benefit the patients it cares for and the communities it serves. Through the inclusive input of team members in its decision-making process, Optum California has laid the foundation to support an organizational culture focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, resulting in the alignment of organizational priorities and a three-year roadmap to achieve desired outcomes with business impact.
In the workplace, Optum has implemented DEI accountability at the individual leader level. To do this, the company has conducted a workplace analysis, educated its leaders on their trends regarding workforce diversity, and developed achievable and scalable goals for diverse promotion/hiring that is monitored on an annual basis.
This means there’s leadership accountability for diverse promotion/hiring as Optum works to close the gender/race gap and have 50% women and people of color represented within its leadership team. Additionally, Optum has created a DEI council that invites its diverse workforce to be part of the movement.
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