Former Chief Healthcare Experience & Equity Officer
Providence Health Plan

Timshel Tarbet, MBA, was the chief healthcare experience & equity officer at Providence Health Plan. Previously, she was the chief equity officer. Prior to starting at Providence in mid 2023, she was the VP of business excellence & diversity strategy at SCAN Health Plan. At SCAN, Tarbet was focused on leading initiatives expanding inclusivity both from a HR standpoint and as a means for SCAN to differentiate itself by serving new and existing populations in ways that are linguistically and culturally competent. Prior to SCAN Timshel worked at Portland based Cambia Health Solutions, which is part of the BCBS association of plans. During her tenure at Cambia, Timshel led the ethics department where she succeeded in transforming the program into a nationally recognized, award-winning program. She also spent time at Cambia leading the enterprise risk management and corporate accountability areas and in HR as an HR business partner, manager compensation, diversity, equity and inclusion, and HRIS.