In places like rural El Paso, Texas, community health workers (CHWs) help thousands of underserved individuals obtain the food, housing and medical services they need to survive. They speak the same ...

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 ...

More than two years after it was promised, Connecticut’s Medicaid program still does not cover community health worker ...

Pear Suite, an EHR and care navigation platform for community health workers, has teamed up with Instacart to expand access to healthy foods. The collaboration will enable thousands of community ...

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 ...

Ohio University’s CHW program has trained more than 500 participants since 2015, growing a community health workforce across ...

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 ...

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is improving patient experience and reducing the burden on providers with a new program that recruits and trains reskilled workers. Jefferson’s Community Health ...

Michigan’s announcement of $173 million in federal funding to strengthen rural health care is more than a budget headline, ...

We have gotten into this mindset where it has to be one or the other, when, in fact, the great majority of the situations would be best handled through co-response: Sending police because there is a ...

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 ...

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 ...