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 ...

With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community healthcare workers prevent older ...

Must embed nurses alongside community health workers to integrate clinical care and social support, improving health outcomes ...

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 ...

Community health workers are sometimes called the “boots on the ground” of public health: doing outreach and education, connecting people with services and addressing barriers to getting care. A ...

For more than 80 years, Bi-Rite, a family-owned grocery store on Belair Road, gave residents of Northeast Baltimore a place to buy affordable produce, send money and cash checks. But by the time a ...

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 connectors between healthcare systems and the communities they serve, providing culturally informed support, education, and advocacy. Programs like LBCC’s ...

Latino community health workers in Santa Clara County, known as promotores de salud or “health promoters,” have for years ...

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 ...

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, ...