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, ...

A pilot program in rural Oregon engaging community health workers in primary care shows a positive impact on patient ...

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 ...

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!” ...

Here, and at other medical centers across the country, an unsung workforce ensures that all patients have the best possible access to care—community health workers. “Community health workers are ...

This story has been updated. The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill — later approved by the Senate — that included a last minute amendment that, among other measures, taps ...

Community health workers help people understand medical instructions, keep appointments and address social stressors. As a result, they reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and hospital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the Big Bend, we know what it means to look out for one another – checking on an elderly neighbor during hurricane season, ...

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.

In the past decade, the healthcare industry has finally started to acknowledge the vital role of community health workers. For instance, about half of states now reimburse community health worker ...

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 ...