April 1, 2013 – Former State Representative Mary Nolan has joined FamilyCare, Inc. as vice president of Business and Community Development. Nolan will lead the company’s efforts in developing innovative products, expanding community partnerships, and initiating policies and practices that improve total health outcomes for FamilyCare’s members within the Portland metro area.
Nolan brings to FamilyCare expertise in business development, product innovation, law-making and coalition-building. She served six terms as State Representative for SW Portland, and emphasized accessibility and affordability of healthcare during her twelve years in the legislature. She successfully championed bills to expand women’s healthcare coverage and to make health insurance more affordable for small businesses and their employees. Nolan helped preserve in-home and assisted living care for seniors, worked with hospitals and insurance companies to keep over $200 million annually of federal funding here in Oregon for both preventive care and hospitalizations for low-income Oregonians, and was a key negotiator in establishing the funding for the Healthy Kids Program which has made healthcare coverage available to an additional 100,000 Oregon children.
Before her election to the Oregon House of Representatives, Nolan founded and was President of AvroTec, Inc., a nationally-acclaimed electronics company that designs and makes innovative avionics systems for private planes and military aircraft.
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FamilyCare, Inc. is a Medicare and Medicaid managed care organization providing patient-centered healthcare to Oregonians for more than 25 years. FamilyCare was the first health plan in Oregon to integrate models of physical and mental health and was the first Coordinated Care Organization in the tri-county area certified by the Oregon Health Authority. The health plan serves about 50,000 members. FamilyCare’s mission is, “Creating healthy individuals through innovative systems.”
