Tennessee's Community Health Worker Strategy Is Succeeding. Which State Will Be Next?

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Discusses the role community health workers (CHWs) can play in improving healthcare outcomes and addressing unmet needs in both rural and urban communities. Details Tennessee's state-funded implementation of a evidence-based CHW infrastructure, and highlights the outcomes over the first two years of the program. Explores how this approach could be implemented in other states.

Victor Wu, Brea Burke, Nikayla Boyd, et al.

Health Affairs Forefront

05/2026

Community health workers · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Medicaid · Policy · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Tennessee