by Melissa LaScaleia
Laura Mandujano Urban was born in Monterrey, Mexico and never could have imagined that she would come to work for and love her career with leading health and well-being company, Humana, Inc.
“My father had brothers living in Wisconsin,” she says. “One of them sponsored him to come to the states, as was the process back then, to begin a new life. After working for a year, my father got settled and we all moved to Wisconsin.
“I started kindergarten in the U.S. and kept up my Spanish because we spoke Spanish at home. I went to the University of Wisconsin, earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and Spanish studies, and then I got married and had a daughter, Esmeralda.”
Laura became a single parent at a young age, and decided to relocate to Pennsylvania. At that point, she embarked on a career in the insurance industry. Then, in 2010, she started working as an agent with Humana, specializing in Medicare.
“I’ve been working in the insurance industry for twenty-five years now,” she says. “For the longest time I was intimidated by the word Medicare. I thought it was a complicated concept until I got introduced to it and began to study it in depth. I began working with seniors and I absolutely loved the interactions I was having with these older adults. Now I can’t picture myself doing anything other than what I’m doing.”
Humana, Inc. is a health care company that offers a wide range of insurance products. They offer health and wellness services that incorporate an integrated approach to lifelong well-being. The company was founded by David A. Jones, Sr. and Wendell Cherry in 1961, and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.
Humana’s successful history in care delivery and health plan administration is helping them create a new kind of integrated care with the power to improve health and well-being and lower costs. To accomplish that, Humana supports physicians and other health care professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the right place for their patients.
