Report to the Community 2024
Improving community health through innovation

Improving community health through innovation

Message from Mimi Haley
Columbia Pacific CCO, Executive Director

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Mission, values & vision

Our mission

To inspire local connections that foster member health and community resilience

Our values

Transparency, Accountability,
Honesty, Respect and Commitment

Our vision

Building equitable and sustainable access to quality health care and community services

Our mission

To inspire local connections that foster member health and community resilience

Our values

Transparency, Accountability,
Honesty, Respect and Commitment

Our vision

Building equitable and sustainable access to quality health care and community services

By the numbers*

+1,300

Number of stories collected for our 2025-2029 Regional Health Improvement Plan

+300

Number of people who attended our 2024 Community Health Summit

+70,000

Number of needles exchanged, Clatsop County harm-reduction program funded by Columbia Pacific**

*amounts rounded
**data for eight-month period in 2024

Group tours interior of the Hawk’s Eye Apartments in Seaside, Oregon.

Hawk’s Eye: A housing-is-health partnership

In August 2024, Columbia Pacific CCO and its partners celebrated the grand opening of the Hawk’s Eye Apartments, a milestone in a collaborative effort to address the housing crisis in Northwest Oregon. A former motel was converted into 55 units split between workforce housing for Columbia Pacific’s contracted network of providers – including social service and health care workers – and permanent supportive housing, which will be managed by Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare. The first tenants moved in last fall.

Young people participate in a panel at the Columbia Pacific 2024 Community Health Summit.

Youth voices at Community Health Summit

In 2024, for the first time ever, Columbia Pacific CCO devoted a full day of its yearly Community Health Summit to exploring the youth system of care in Northwest Oregon. One of the most popular sessions focused on breaking barriers to care and services faced by youth and families, a key priority for Columbia Pacific. It featured 15 panelists (ages 12 to 25) from the Youth Advisory Council to the North Coast System of Care. The council is the result of a collaboration between Youth Era and Columbia Pacific. Ideas that emerged will shape the System of Care’s work to reduce barriers to affordable housing, respite care and more.

Community member fills out a survey for the Columbia Pacific CCO Regional Health Assessment.

Regional Health Improvement Plan: Listening to community voices

Culminating a two-year effort to listen to diverse community voices, Columbia Pacific CCO adopted its latest Regional Health Improvement Plan in 2024. Since its early days, Columbia Pacific has worked to increase opportunities for members and wider communities to inform and participate in strategic planning. Columbia Pacific collected more than 1,300 health-related stories from community members before its Regional Community Advisory Council approved the 2025-29 plan. The feedback shaped the plan’s priority areas: equitable food systems, healthy children and youth, and housing and houselessness.

Person in wheelchair uses an outdoor ramp providing home access.

Healthy Homes: A foundational solution to houselessness

For about a decade, Columbia Pacific CCO has sustained a partnership with the Community Action Team in Columbia County and helped fund the regional Healthy Homes program. Healthy Homes addresses the affordable housing crisis by paying for home repairs and modifications that make it possible for people to stay in their homes. Making existing homes healthier and safer helps prevent the health conditions associated with houselessness, improves residents’ quality of life and controls health care costs. Community Action Team also provides housing- and climate-related assistance under the state’s new Health-Related Social Needs benefit.

Person in wheelchair uses an outdoor ramp providing home access.

Food in focus: Supporting local efforts to fight food insecurity

Northwest Oregon has abundant natural resources, yet many community members struggle to get the food they need to live their best lives. Columbia Pacific CCO has long worked to alleviate the region’s high rates of food insecurity by supporting grassroots programs, such as North Coast Food Web’s Farm-to-Food Assistance program. In 2023, Columbia Pacific approved a $97,905 grant to help launch the program, which buys nutrient-dense, fresh food from local farmers and, through local partnerships, provides it free of charge to people experiencing food insecurity. In 2024, North Coast Food Web reported that it had given away more than 390 free food boxes (worth $40 each) and spent more than $16,000 on local food.

a paramedic helping a patient

Reducing barriers to care 

Since 2017, Columbia Pacific CCO has funded a community paramedicine program in Columbia County. The program, now based out of Scappoose Rural Fire Protection District, has improved access to care in a rural county that lacks a hospital or emergency department. In 2024, Columbia Pacific increased funding to this successful partnership to add a second paramedic, who will work alongside longtime community paramedic Janina “Nina” Kerr-Bryant. She has staffed the program since its inception, traveling far and wide to provide care and other support where it’s needed (mostly in homes). Her referrals come mostly from Columbia Pacific’s Regional Care Team.

Community Giving

Columbia Pacific invests in care and communities

We’re a nonprofit community benefit company serving more than 35,000 Oregon Health Plan members.

Membership by county
Community investments 2024
Clinical investments 2024*

*Clinical investments do not include distributions from risk-sharing agreements

Note: dollar amounts rounded

Our 2024 Board of Directors

Nancy Avery

Manager

ODS Community Dental

Jonathan Betlinski, MD

Director, Division of Public Psychiatry

Oregon Health & Science University

Pam Cooper

Chief Financial Officer

Providence Seaside Hospital

Sherrie Ford

Director

Columbia Health Services

Eric C. Hunter

President and Chief Executive Officer

CareOregon

Steven Manesis

Peer Support Specialist

Community Advisory Council Member (Clatsop County)

Monica D. Martinez

Vice President/General Counsel, Legal and Regulatory Affairs

CareOregon

Viviana Matthews, Board Chair

Executive Director

Clatsop Community Action

Erin Skaar

Commissioner

Tillamook County

Marlene Putman

Administrator

Tillamook County Community Health Centers

Joe Skariah, DO

Health Officer

Columbia County Public Health

Eric Swanson

President

Adventist Health Tillamook

Lena Walker, OD

President

Family Vision of Oregon

Nicole Williams

Chief Operating Officer

Columbia Memorial Hospital