Efforts to improve dementia care in primary care settings may benefit from additional support for patients and caregivers, including the use of community health workers and earlier attention to ...

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 ...

Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

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 ...

Bucking the norm, New York City-based Montefiore has opted to directly employ and embed community health workers within its clinical teams to connect patients with social services as part of broader ...

The saying “not all heroes wear capes” is certainly true with community health workers. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker with lived experience and local knowledge, ...

An initiative to build trust in healthcare will be boosted by a $1 million grant from Harris County Public Health (HCPH). The University of Houston's Community Health Worker Initiative focuses on ...

In 2006, Tina Brown sat next to a Black colleague at a work meeting who shared she had just been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Triple-negative is a highly aggressive form of breast ...

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

Nolga Valadez knows that her work for Three Square, which provides food to those in need, consists of more than offering sustenance. After a course in bilingual community health worker training, ...