Former Blue Shield California Leader Raine Arndt-Couch on Building Social Work Teams, CalAIM, & More

Former Blue Shield California Leader Raine Arndt-Couch on Building Social Work Teams, CalAIM, & More

May 26, 2026 · 40 min

About this episode

Raine Arndt-Couch discusses her journey in social work and her leadership role at Blue Shield California, focusing on the CalAIM initiative and her future consulting plans.

Raine shares about her journey as a social worker, including gaining her JD while winning runner up in the Ms. Hawaii pageant, starting as a frontline social worker in a hospital setting, to ultimately leading a social work team while building programs around the CalAIM initiative at Blue Shield California. Raine closes out the show discussing her next chapter and the start of her own consulting firm.

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