Cathy Kaufmann

Cathy Kaufmann is deeply knowledgeable about designing and implementing transformation projects that can drive change in the health care delivery system and across the community. As a consultant, Cathy provides guidance and strategic planning, technical assistance, policy analysis, organizational assessment and improvement planning and meeting facilitation in the fields of health care and social services. She is skilled at supporting cross-sector coalitions to identify shared goals and work collectively.  

Her past and current clients include state Medicaid agencies, county governments, Medicaid managed care plans and health systems across the country.

During her time at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Cathy served as founding director of the Transformation Center, an office created to support Governor Kitzhaber’s Health Systems Transformation initiative to spread innovation across the CCOs. She was part of the executive team to establish Oregon's CCOs in 2012. She also led efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act and was responsible for helping streamline and improve Medicaid enrollment. 

Cathy also served as the administrator of the Office of Healthy Kids and the Office of Client and Community Services, OHA's medical eligibility and enrollment office, where she led efforts to successfully enrolled over 100,000 children into health coverage in a little more than a year. 
 

Cathy’s previous work includes federal and state policy advocacy and coalition leadership, including serving as the Enrollment Program Director at Families USA, at national consumer health advocacy organization, as well s the Policy and Communications Director for Children First for Oregon, a statewide child advocacy organization focused on health care access and affordability, family financial stability and child welfare. She also served as a past co-chair of the Human Services Coalition of Oregon (HSCO), a public policy coalition made up of over 100 health, housing and human services organizations, leading the coalition to consensus on a shared agenda at a time when each sector faced significant budget cuts.