PacifiCare Once Again Ranked One of 50 Best Companies for Latinas to Work for in the U.S. According to LATINA Style Magazine
16 Settembre 2005 - 4:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
* LATINA Style 50 evaluates companies for their number of Latina
employees as well as employee benefit, mentoring and leadership
programs CYPRESS, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. (NYSE:PHS) has earned a place on the
eighth annual 2005 LATINA Style 50, a survey by LATINA Style
Magazine of the 50 best companies for Latinas to work for in the
United States. The LATINA Style 50 is, according to the magazine,
"the most respected source of employment and career information for
Hispanic women in the nation." Companies that are considered for
listing on the LATINA Style 50 are evaluated for their percentage
of Latina employees and Latinas in senior and executive management
positions. Other criteria include the companies' benefits packages
and availability of mentoring and leadership-training programs.
PacifiCare was one of 800 U.S. corporations that were evaluated by
the magazine for selection to this year's list. The article
announcing the winners appears in the August 2005 issue. This year
marks PacifiCare's second consecutive appearance on the list. The
magazine will honor PacifiCare and the other LATINA Style 50
companies Feb. 3, 2006, during the LATINA Style's Best Practices in
Diversity Conference in Washington, D.C., as well as an exclusive
awards reception at the White House. "PacifiCare's commitment to
foster workplace diversity is an integral part of our brand pledge,
'Caring is good. Doing something is better,'" said Howard Pastel,
PacifiCare's chairman and chief executive officer. "We believe that
a diverse work force is important in order to better reflect the
communities we serve. We are honored that LATINA Style Magazine has
recognized our commitment." The LATINA Style 50 award follows on
the heels of PacifiCare being named to Hispanic magazine's 2005
Hispanic Magazine Corporate 100, which lists companies based on
their recruitment efforts, diversity training, ethnic
representation of its board members and minority business
initiatives. Latinas comprise more than three-quarters of
PacifiCare's Hispanic employees and more than 16 percent of
PacifiCare's total work force. "These awards show that PacifiCare
is a good place to work for our more than 1,800 Latino employees
and that we can make a positive difference for our Latino members
who want access to quality, affordable health care," said Russell
Bennett, PacifiCare's vice president of Latino Health Solutions.
"Today, Latinos comprise more than 20 percent of our total health
plan membership; in California, more than 27 percent of our members
are Latino. We believe our diverse customers are best served by
knowledgeable and experienced employees who understand their needs,
and we feel we are taking an innovative approach in developing
culturally sensitive and relevant consumer health services to
improve the health and well-being of Latinos." "Some of the
companies on this year's LATINA Style 50 have also demonstrated a
unique outreach to the Latino community, such as PacifiCare's
bilingual health education programs and culturally focused
materials to help Latinos and Latinas make better health and health
insurance decisions," said Robert Bard, publisher of LATINA Style
Magazine. PacifiCare's Latino Health Solutions has developed
far-reaching relationships with the Latino community and provides
health care information and unique educational programs tailored to
meet the health care needs of Latinos. These include
reader-friendly materials and brochures in Spanish and bilingual
Web-based educational programs, as well as Spanish-language
versions of PacifiCare's award-winning disease management and
health improvement programs. Also, PacifiCare's Spanish-language
Web site, PacifiCare en Espanol (http://www.pacificarelatino.com/),
is a unique online resource for health care information
specifically tailored to address the health care concerns of
PacifiCare's growing Spanish-speaking membership and the Latino
community at large. In addition, Latino Health Solutions, together
with the PacifiCare Foundation, established the Latino Health
Scholars program for Spanish-speaking bilingual and bicultural
high-school students who want to pursue careers in the health care
industry. Since the Latino Health Scholars program was launched in
2003, PacifiCare has awarded $356,000 in scholarships to 155
deserving students. PacifiCare Health Systems is one of the
nation's largest consumer health organizations with nearly 3.3
million health plan members and approximately 11.3 million
specialty plan members nationwide. PacifiCare offers individuals,
employers and Medicare beneficiaries a variety of consumer-driven
health care and life insurance products. Specialty plan operations
include behavioral health, dental and vision, and complete pharmacy
benefit management through its wholly owned subsidiary,
Prescription Solutions. More information on PacifiCare Health
Systems is available at http://www.pacificare.com/. "Caring is
good. Doing something is better." is a service mark of PacifiCare
Health Systems Inc. DATASOURCE: PacifiCare Health Systems Inc.
CONTACT: Media Relations, Dan Miller of PacifiCare Health Systems
Inc., +1-714-226-3726, Web site: http://www.pacificare.com/
http://www.pacificarelatino.com/
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