Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: May 2022
Podcast with Tom Morris of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy about trends related to the rural healthcare workforce and efforts to overcome challenges. Discusses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural hospital closures, telehealth, graduate medical education in rural areas, community health workers and community paramedics, funding opportunities to promote healthcare access in rural areas, the opioid crisis, and more.
...Community health workers · Community paramedicine · Emergency medical technicians and paramedics · Funding · Graduate medical education · Health...
Reviewed: Apr 26, 2024
Cares for roughly 125,000 Maine residents, most of whom reside in rural areas. Focuses on patient-centered care to improve overall wellness and reduce healthcare costs.
...workers and community health workers who would have been out of budget range otherwise. Practices...
Date: Apr 2022
Describes a culturally tailored community-wide program to augment fruit and vegetable consumption and promote physical activity among 5,686 low-income Latinos of Mexican descent living in Texas. Features demographics and statistics on changes in fruit and vegetable consumption over the course of the intervention.
...Community Health Worker-Based Community Wide Campaign to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Physical...
Date: Nov 2016
Illustrates examples of rural-focused medical education programs to support an adequate supply of physicians in rural Maine. Discusses behavioral and oral health workforce development, and promising programs utilizing other types of healthcare workers such as community paramedics and community health workers (CHWs) to increase the availability and accessibility of healthcare in rural Maine and in other rural regions of the U.S.
...workers such as community paramedics and community health workers (CHWs) to increase the availability and accessibility...
Date: Feb 2020
Describes a community health worker-based chronic care management model implemented in rural counties in 3 central Appalachian states. Demonstrates how to engage health insurance companies to support and sustain this model.
...Community health workers · Diabetes · Health conditions · Health insurance · Statistics and data · Kentucky · Ohio · West Virginia...
Date: Apr 2016
Reports on a review of 67 studies evaluating the effectiveness of community-based health workers (CBHWs) as an intervention model for chronic disease management and care among low-income, underserved, and racial and ethnic minority populations at risk for health disparities. Discusses the roles and tasks of CBHWs, the effectiveness of their intervention, their qualifications and training, and the reimbursement and sustainability of CBHWs.
...Community-Based Health Worker Interventions to Improve Chronic Disease Management and Care Among Vulnerable Populations...
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024
Issues to consider prior to implementing a rural community health program.
...community health workers, see our Rural Community Health Worker Toolkit . Rural communities can also consider...
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...