Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: 2020
Describes and examines the impact of a care coordination program developed by the Worcester County Health Department located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Describes the program's care team of a registered nurse, masters-level social worker, and community health worker (CHW), working in collaboration with primary care providers. Serves patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure (CHF), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with a home visit and services tailored to the patient's unique needs. Funded under the Rural Health Care Coordination Network Partnership Grant Program from 2015-2018.
...worker, and community health worker (CHW), working in collaboration with primary care providers. Serves patients...
Date: Sep 2015
Policy brief analyzing the effectiveness of using community health workers as community healthcare coordinators during a 3 year period (2012–2015) in frontier Montana. Includes recommendations to other communities that may consider implementing this model. Project was supported by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Frontier Community Health Care Network Coordination (FCHCNC) grant program.
...community health workers as community healthcare coordinators during a 3 year period (2012–2015) in frontier...
Reviewed: May 15, 2024
Learn how programs can use a non-clinical mental health workers model to increase the availability of rural mental health services.
...community health workers. Our Community Health Workers Toolkit provides information on implementing community health worker...
Date: Sep 3, 2024
The September 2024 episode of RHIhub's podcast features an interview with Krista Postai, CEO of Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas (CHC/SEK), and Jason Wesco, CHC/SEK's President and Chief Strategy Officer. We learn about how CHC/SEK developed a single Federally Qualified Health Center into an organization serving 18 locations.
...community health workers in the last few years promises to make some progress. I went...
Date: 2019
Describes current literature on rural challenges and opportunities, including cardiovascular risk due to obesity, lack of access to healthcare, workforce shortages, importance of paramedics and community health workers, telehealth and broadband, and impact of the substance use disorder epidemic. Intended to help stakeholders understand the causes of health disparities and to support action to improve the health of rural communities.
...Community health workers · Community paramedicine · Emergency medical technicians and paramedics · Food security and nutrition · Health...
Reviewed: Nov 6, 2025
Community paramedics and community health workers make home visits and provide basic care, home assessments, and other services to rural Missouri patients with chronic illnesses.
...Community health workers · Community paramedicine · Emergency medical technicians and paramedics · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Home...
Date: Jan 10, 2018
Dr. Art Kaufman discusses the Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) model, how he is helping promote the use of community health workers, and his work with the University of New Mexico's World Health Organization Collaborating Center. - The Rural Monitor
...community health workers, and his work with the University of New Mexico's World Health...
Date: May 2020
Summarizes a series of virtual peer learning sessions in response to COVID-19 for current Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program, Rural Health Network Development, Small Healthcare Provider Quality Improvement, and Delta States Rural Development Network program grantees. Provides an overview of common themes that emerged from the sessions. Discusses the challenges and innovations made to implement rural health and public programs across six areas: community health workers, data collection and evaluation, virtual trainings, peer support services and recovery supports, telehealth utilization, and schools.
...community health workers, data collection and evaluation, virtual trainings, peer support services and recovery supports...
Date: Feb 21, 2024
CommHIT, a nonprofit based at the Kennedy Space Center, has worked at the intersection of rural health and technology for over a decade. Now, as an awardee of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network (RPHWTN) grant program, the organization is assisting Florida partners with workforce development initiatives and technology-related training programs. - The Rural Monitor
...Community Health Worker Coalition (FCHWC) to develop the Tech-Based Community Health Worker (CHW-T) credential...
Date: Feb 2024
Discusses challenges with offering home-based primary care (HBPC) in rural communities for older adults and people with disabilities, notably workforce shortages, insufficient infrastructure, and funding. Offers HBPC redesign suggestions with these challenges in mind, discussing community health workers, technology and telehealth, leveraging community resources and partnerships, training, scope of practice laws, payment models, and infrastructure investments.
...Community health workers · Funding · Health workforce education and training · Health workforce supply and demand · Home...