Building a Community Health Worker Program: The Key to Better Care, Better Outcomes, & Lower Costs
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Description
A toolkit offering information and strategies to help hospitals and healthcare systems design and implement a community health worker (CHW) program targeted to the communities they serve. Highlights evidence-based best practices, sustainable financing of CHW activities, engaging stakeholders, and suggests outcome measures. Provides a chapter of case studies on rural, urban, and suburban settings.
Author(s)
Beth A. Brooks, Sheila Davis, Loraine Frank-Lightfoot, et al.
Date
07/2018
Type
Document
Organizations
American Hospital Association, CommunityHealth Works
Tagged as
Access · Community health workers · Public health · Reimbursement and payment models · Sustainability of programs