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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Richmond and Henrico Health Districts (RHHD) are shining a light on community health workers in recognition of National Community Health Worker Awareness Week. The week, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kelly Engebretson was excited to get fitted for a prosthetic after having part of his leg amputated. But he wasn’t sure how he’d get to the appointment. Nah Thu Thu Win’s twin sons needed vaccinations ...

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.