Founded by low-cost clinics to serve all the people
For nearly 30 years, Community Health Plan of Washington (CHPW) has been providing quality health care to Washington families and supporting their choices for health care. Our coverage is geared toward a model of care that treats the whole person and fosters trust, compassion, respect, and equality.
Accessible managed care services that meet the needs and improve the health of our communities.
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an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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Our mission is to bring health coverage to all Washingtonians and give them the tools they need to live healthier lives. Join us!
A brief history of CHPW
- In 1992, Washington’s low-cost clinics (Community Health Centers) realized too many people were being neglected by traditional insurance. They got together and started Community Health Plan of Washington.
- CHPW is the state’s first not-for-profit managed care plan founded by Community Health Centers.
- Today, we’re still the only not-for-profit to provide managed care to Apple Health members.
- Always working to improve our services, we expanded to cover Medicare members in 2007.
Our mission
Our mission is to deliver accessible managed care services that meet the needs and improve the health of our communities, and make managed care participation beneficial for community-responsive providers.
We work for patients, and we work to help providers better serve those patients.
Our culture
Our Mission is our North Star, an overarching purpose carried out through our strategic goals. Our Values, orient us toward them; they influence our behaviors, actions, and priorities. They guide us as we build a more inclusive workplace culture.
Values by their nature are aspirational and serve as core principles. They give us a sense of purpose and direction, setting the tone for our daily interactions with each other.
We are committed to the ongoing process of making our values a lived reality by infusing them into all aspects of how we lead and work together. Our shared values include:
We Center Our Communities
We support the communities we serve, our colleagues, and those we partner with, by giving each person what they need to thrive.
We Aim Towards Justice
We champion inclusive behaviors to help build bridges across our differences in the pursuit of building fair systems and practices.
We Build Trusting Relationships
We embrace collaboration by inviting in more voices, and actively listening to them, to improve our teamwork and achieve our goals.
We Own Our Actions
We strive to do the right thing by holding ourselves accountable to the communities we serve, to each other, and to ourselves.
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Commitment to diversity
Our focus on advancing health equity stems from our founding by Community Health Centers to ensure access to quality health care for all people in Washington and breaking down unjust and systemic barriers to healthy communities. This is the work we are all engaged in and requires us to both develop our internal capacity to recognize and address inequities, as well as build on our member and provider-facing opportunities to reduce disparities and improve the health of those historically marginalized.
Our commitment:
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- We strive to apply an equity lens to all our work.
- Reduce health disparities.
- Become an anti-racist organization
- Create an equitable work environment
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Equal Employment Opportunity
Community Health Plan of Washington is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any actual or perceived protected characteristic or other unlawful consideration to include: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
