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 ...

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 ...

Trust, especially when it comes to health, is an act of deep vulnerability. Particularly when you don’t feel like anyone else truly understands what you’re going through, where you’ve been or the hard ...

Community health workers were integrated into primary care to deliver age-friendly care services to rural older adults. Initial results indicated a reduction in hospitalizations, with positive ...

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, ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — An Arkansas law that is set to take effect next month is promising to help improve rural health disparities. Act 435, The Community Health Workers Act does two things: Creates a ...

With health care coverage and cuts on the mind of the average American, it’s a continuing workforce shortage that should ...

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Michigan’s announcement of $173 million in federal funding to strengthen rural health care is more than a budget headline – it’s a powerful affirmation of what the state has long understood: strong ...

Shanon Seymore had given up. Diagnosed with a rare bleeding disorder called von Willebrand disease, she was in constant pain, unable to work, and on the verge of eviction from her Pontiac home.