STAT

Community health workers, experts in the in-between, fight for their place in the system

NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx was delivering her start-of-shift updates and mantras — “Covid is not finished with us … clean, clean, clean!” ...
Medicine Buffalo

Community health workers provide bridge between researchers, community

Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Community workers needed in task of regional health equity, leaders say at NWA Health Summit

SPRINGDALE -- If health is impacted in part by social circumstances, then Northwest Arkansas needs a health workforce that reflects that reality, regional health leaders said at the NWA Health Summit ...
Time

How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration and Rebuild Public Safety

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The Business Journals

How community health workers in New Mexico are serving vulnerable populations

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Community health workers serve vulnerable populations on ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Community Health Workers’ Critical Role in Trust Building Between the Medical System and Communities of Color

The authors interrogate elements of routine medical practice in New York City to argue for reforms of hospital culture through relational trust-building capabilities of community health workers. Trust ...
Medscape

Community Workers May Address Psychiatrist Shortage

A pilot project that trains lay community members to screen for and address common psychiatric disorders, addiction issues, and suicide risk promises to bring timely, evidence-based health services to ...
HealthLeaders Media

Community Health Workers Generate Value at Health Systems and Hospitals. Here's How.

At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...
Forbes

Foreign Assistance Cuts Hamper Community Health Workers And Patients

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 17, 2019, a community health worker prepares to vaccinate children against measles outside of Kuajok, South Sudan. As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil ...