Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Dec 2023
Details a study exploring how rural and urban communities in Kansas are screening for social determinants of health and using community health workers to address challenges. Bases findings on surveys of providers and clinic managers.
...Community health workers · Health screening · Social determinants of health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Date: Jun 2022
Examines the Maryland landscape of community health workers (CHWs) and the organizations that employ them; identifies barriers and facilitators to incorporating the CHW skillset into patient-centered healthcare models; and determines the impact of CHWs on access to healthcare and use of preventive health services by the people they serve. Features statistics including demographics, services provided, funding sources, and type of employer, with breakdowns by urban or rural area.
...Community health workers · Funding · Health workforce supply and demand · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data...
Date: Jan 2025
Examines the feasibility of community health worker (CHW) participation in a collaborative cancer care pain intervention for rural and/or Hispanic/Latino patients, utilizing survey and interview data of 12 CHWs. Discusses CHW experiences and comfort working with cancer patients in underserved settings.
...Medicine, 14(1), 13-28 01/2025 Cancer · Chronic disease management · Community health workers · Health conditions...
Date: 2019
Brief overview of a care coordination program using a team of community health workers, a registered nurse, and a nurse practitioner. Discusses the program's sustainability efforts, as well as key takeaways about the program. The program was funded under the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program from 2015-2018 and received additional philanthropic funding through a public-private partnership.
...Community Health Worker Care Coordination Program, West Virginia --- Brief overview of a care coordination program...
Date: Jan 2013
Evaluates the effectiveness of a Community Health Worker system of care to help decrease coronary heart disease in primarily rural and frontier Colorado counties. Includes data and statistics broken down by age, risk factors, and geographic location.
...Community Health Worker Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program in Public Health and Health Care Settings --- Evaluates...
Date: Dec 2013
Identifies the scope of practice, supervision, financing, and the workforce standards implemented by states and employers in the development of community health worker (CHW) programs. Four case studies that include rural counties illustrate the challenges and opportunities for integrating CHWs into health systems.
...Community health workers · Diabetes · Health workforce education and training · Home and community-based services · Medicaid...
Date: Jan 2016
Identifies and discusses health services research on the utilization and integration of Community Health Workers (CHWs) into healthcare service delivery. Includes an analysis regarding the various CHW models, employment data, training and credentialing, and challenges associated with the development of this occupation.
...Community Health Workers: Roles and Opportunities in Health Care Delivery System Reform --- Identifies and discusses...
Reviewed: May 14, 2025
Summary information for the organization Arizona Community Health Worker Association, including related information from this organization listed on the RHIhub website.
...Community Health Worker Association (AzCHOW) --- Summary information for the organization Arizona Community Health Worker Association...
Date: Mar 2017
Provides an update to the story of the Zuni people of western New Mexico and the health conditions they commonly face: chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Describes the Home-Based Kidney Care model to train tribal members fluent in Zuni to become community health workers. The community health workers visit patients weekly, providing them with education on healthy lifestyles, medication support, and data collection. The original story, published in July 2014, is included at the end of the update.
...community health workers. The community health workers visit patients weekly, providing them with education on healthy...
Date: Dec 2019
Summarizes key findings from previous Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded studies in 9 states on Community Health Workers (CHWs) interventions and their effect on diverse ethnic, racial, socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds, including rural. Offers evidence-based recommendations to help state policymakers integrate CHWs into healthcare delivery teams to improve health outcomes and reduce the cost of healthcare for individuals and populations.
...Community health workers · Policy · Population health · California · Florida · Georgia · Kentucky · New Mexico · New York · Oregon...