Anamaria Delgado

Bachelor's

Liberal Studies

Kaiser Permanente, Marin

Program Manager of Diversity & Inclusion

- Lead/provide expert technical leadership to highly-visible, sensitive and multi-faceted diversity and inclusion projects: Cultural Awareness Lunch and Learn series, department specific diversity trainings. Set strategic direction of projects - Promoted/implemented organizational understanding of diverse populations through Cultural Awareness Lunch and Learn series: Understanding the Latino Patient, Ying and Yang Chinese Medicine versus Western Medicine. Led/ directed 2009 Diversity $20,000 Matching Grant. Cultivated environment for staff to appreciate unique needs of all populations by embracing diversity and increasing knowledge/awareness. Fostered competence and inclusiveness amongst all clinicians/employees - Identified need, hired and managed full-time Spanish interpreter and full-time staff interpreter. Developed/launched Linguistic and Cultural Competent initiatives: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards, (CLAS). Developed trainings to provide alternative to patchwork of independently developed definitions, practices, and requirements concerning CLAS. Initiated project to develop recommended national CLAS standards to support consistent, comprehensive approach to cultural/linguistic competence in health care