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About Us
Kathleen O’Connor, MA, Principal of O’Connor Health Care Communications, has over 23 years experience in health care marketing, health strategy, communications, and public relations, both locally and nationally. Her clients range in size from:
- health care information technology giants, such as Erisco and EDS
- integrated health systems, such as Sisters of Providence Health System
- health plans, such as Group Health Cooperative, First Choice Health Network and Sisters of Providence Health Plans in Washington
- US Public Health Service
- large corporations, such as SAFECO,
- small providers, such as the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
- non-profit organizations, such as Multifaith Works.
We specialize in taking complex information and putting it into language people understand so you can get your story told.
We offer a range of consulting services as well as publish The O’ConnorReport: Insights and Commentaries on Health Care Today.
Kathleen is also the author of The Buck Stops Nowhere: Why America’s Health Care is All Dollars and No Sense.
Kathleen O’Connor, author, consultant, industry analyst and columnist, has over 23 years experience in various sectors of the healthcare industry. She has been a bureaucrat, an entrepreneur, the Medicare marketing and sales executive for a for-profit HMO, and a non-profit executive.
Her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees are in Japanese and Comparative Governments, so she speaks three languages: English, Japanese and Healthcare. She has the rare ability to take complicated healthcare information and turn it into language consumers understand.
She writes a monthly column on health care policy and politics for the Editorial Page of The Seattle Times. Her first piece was one of their most widely read and distributed columns.
Widely published locally and nationally, her cover stories appear in respected national trade publications such as Healthcare Infomatics, InfoCare, HealthPlan Magazine, HMO Magazine, and as well as Northwest regional business magazines, such as Washington CEO. Other articles and opinion pieces have appeared frequently in Business and Health, Managed Care Journal, Journal of Employee Benefits, Puget Sound Business Journal, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Diversity Business News among others, including a major 64-page health care consumer supplement in The Seattle Times.
Her Glossary of Healthcare Terms and Definitions is in its 3rd printing, with over 30,000 copies sold.
Kathleen has also been featured in national magazines, such as the Dow Jones’ Career Journal, Click Chicks, Glamour Magazine and Women’s Day, among others. She speaks frequently on healthcare issues and on her book: The Buck Stops Nowhere.
She publishes The O’Connor Report: Insights and Commentaries on Health Care Today, a lively, independent newsletter on health care policy and politics in Washington State and the nation.
Professional and Civic Affiliations
Recognized nationally for her consumer-oriented advocacy, she was selected as one of 120 people to serve on the National Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC. (1999--)
She was one of 12 community leaders selected to serve in the first Community Leadership Project (1996-99) sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, Kellogg Foundation and the National Association of Community Leadership Programs.
She is a graduate of the Leadership Tomorrow Program in Seattle (1985) and has been active in community activities, such as Save the Pike Street Market Committee; Seattle Women’s Commission; King County Board of Mental Health; Boys and Girls Clubs; Leadership Tomorrow Governing Board; the Giraffe Project; Alzheimers’ Association of Washington, Senior Services of King County, among others. She is the Founder and President, Board of Directors, W.H.E.R.E. (Women for Healthcare Equity through Reform and Education); and oversaw its affiliation with the National Association for Women’s Health in Chicago.
She currently also serves on the Women’s Health Advisory Committee, Region X, US Public Health Service; Advisory Panel, Center for Excellence in Women’s Health, University of Washington; Advisory Board, Dental Health Services and was a member of the White House Women’s Conference Circle (1997-2001)
She is president of the Fremont Club of Rotary International (aka the Fun Club), which is the first officially charted Rotary Club of the century (Jan. 1, 2000).
She was raised on Route 66 and has lived in California, Virginia, Florida, and Washington DC. She spent her high schools years in Japan and settled in Seattle when she started college at the University of Washington.
O’Connor Communications is also affiliated with other groups and individuals with whom we share consulting expertise. We also have a range of associates we bring in when needed to handle large, complex projects.
Link here to Baldwin Resource Group
- Interpractice Systems: EDS and Harvard Community Health Plan
- Providence Health System and Sisters of Providence Health Plans in Washington
- Washington State Hospital Association
- US Public Health Service, Region X
- Erisco
- SAFECO Insurance Companies
- First Choice Health Network
- Premera Blue Cross
- Asterion.com
- CHOICE Regional Health Network
- Basic Health Plan of Washington
- Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
- Multifaith Works
- and others
Contact us now to see how we can help you reach your goals.
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