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Date: Sep 2024
Examines provider travel costs associated with field-based healthcare services in Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program. Discusses Medicaid policies related to provider travel costs and the implications for community health workers (CHWs), doula services, and behavioral health services, with emphasis on the impact for rural areas of the state.
...workers (CHWs), doula services, and behavioral health services, with emphasis on the impact for rural areas of the state. Logan Kelly 09/2024 Center for Health Care Strategies Behavioral health workforce · Community...
Date: Jan 2023
Provides an overview on the access barriers and health disparities of Medicaid and Medicare dually eligible individuals residing in rural areas. Presents research and stakeholder feedback from New Mexico, North Dakota, and Tennessee to provide information to policymakers. Discusses topics such as community planning related to equity and infrastructure, workforce capacity and community health workers (CHWs), and social determinants of health.
...community health workers (CHWs), and social determinants of health. --- The Health Equity & Access for Rural...
Date: May 2018
Policy position brief about new immigrants in rural areas, in terms of healthcare access, health disparities, economic contributions, healthcare facilities and community health workers, and service strategies to benefit immigrants. Includes case studies of immigrants in Minnesota and immigrants employed in the meat-processing industry and in rural farming.
...Community health workers · Critical Access Hospitals · Farmers and farmworkers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health disparities...
Date: Oct 2021
Recording of a U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on legislation related to funding for behavioral and mental health services for the healthcare workforce; a loan repayment program for local, state, and tribal public health professionals; increasing diversity in allied health professions; improving health outcomes in underserved communities through the use of community health workers; and more. Includes testimony from the National Association of County and City Health Officials, Augusta University, Ballad Health, and others.
...workers; and more. Includes testimony from the National Association of County and City Health Officials, Augusta University, Ballad Health, and others. 10/2021 House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health Allied health · Community...
Date: Sep 2024
Evaluated the effectiveness of a self-monitoring blood pressure program (SMBP) involving a nonphysician team for 205 patients with recent hypertension diagnoses in a rural Washington Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Discusses facilitators and barriers to implementation including COVID-19, telehealth, community health workers, working with limited English proficiency populations, reimbursement, and collaborations.
...Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Limited English proficient · Networking and collaboration · Reimbursement and payment...
Date: May 16, 2018
Across the country, recruitment and retention challenges are common for rural healthcare entities providing post-acute care. Healthcare leaders share practical examples that have created incentive for staff to join, and stay on, their healthcare teams. - The Rural Monitor
...community health workers, and applying new technology are just some ways for rural healthcare leaders...
Date: Sep 2019
Highlights a study on the cost effectiveness of a community health worker (CHW)-based public health intervention to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in rural areas. Highlights an intervention that uses software to calculate risk scores and assist CHWs in making referrals and give support.
...disease · Community health workers · Public health · Statistics and data · Technology for health and human services...
Date: Apr 27, 2026
Profiles Sandy Guzman, a community health worker (CHW) in rural Oregon, who serves as an intermediary between patients and the healthcare system. CHWs can help patients apply for food and housing benefits, coordinate follow-up appointments, administer cognitive and mental health screenings, and help with other non-medical needs. Source: KFF Health News.
...community health worker (CHW) in rural Oregon, who serves as an intermediary between patients and the healthcare...
Date: 2021
Presentations from a workshop facilitating a population health perspective among public health and healthcare leaders and professionals; framing the work of personnel such as community health workers, health navigators, and peer-to-peer chronic disease management educators within the context of population health; and leveraging the competencies of public- and private-sector workforces that are working to include a well-being orientation in their activities.
...Engineering, and Medicine Chronic disease management · Community health workers · Physical activity · Population health · Public health · Virginia...
Date: 2020
Describes and examines the impact of a care coordination program developed by the Williamson Health and Wellness Center based in Williamson, West Virginia. Describes the program's use of care teams of community health workers, a registered nurse, and a nurse practitioner providing care coordination to patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Funded under the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program from 2015-2018, with additional private funding from a network of local philanthropies.
...community health workers, a registered nurse, and a nurse practitioner providing care coordination to patients...