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Models & Innovations Search Results for: community health workers

74 Models & Innovations webpages matched your search. Here are matches 11 - 20:

11. Hawai'i Island Family Medicine Residency
Reviewed: Jan 29, 2024

The Hawai'i Island Family Medicine Residency (HIFMR) program uses an interprofessional team-based approach so residents learn how to care for many types of patients in many different healthcare settings.

...community medicine experience in the hope that residents will stay and practice in rural Hawaii after graduation. Residents work with other providers such as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), behavioral psychologists, community health workers...

12. The Possibility Shop
Reviewed: Jan 23, 2024

The Possibility Shop in Maryland partners with health organizations, insurance navigators, food banks, and other agencies in order to provide health and human services and items like hygiene products, food, and clothing to vulnerable populations.

...Health Education Center West ( AHEC West ). Services offered The Possibility Shop is staffed by community health workers...

13. Coast to Forest: Mental Health Promotion in Rural Oregon and Beyond
Reviewed: Jan 19, 2024

Coast to Forest provides training and community education to improve mental health and prevent substance use disorders in rural Oregon and beyond.

...health Community health workers Health literacy Networking and collaboration Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...

14. Salud es Vida Cervical Cancer Education
Reviewed: Jan 5, 2024

A promotora-led program that provides information on cervical cancer, HPV, and the HPV vaccine to Hispanic farmworker women in rural southern Georgia and South Carolina.

...health workers in the Hispanic community who can relay health-related information to community members...

15. Rural Nevada EMS Conference
Reviewed: Jan 5, 2024

As a way for rural EMS personnel to receive low-cost, high quality training, the Rural Nevada EMS Conference offers continuing education units and engaging sessions for EMS personnel.

...communities and their roles in the safety and health of Nevadans as well as visitors traveling its isolated highways. Challenges EMS workers...

16. Health without Borders
Reviewed: Jan 3, 2024

A health promotion program in the New Mexico border region that addresses diabetes prevention and control, behavioral health, and immunization.

...community, such as HwoB's door-to-door immunization campaign Contact Information Kara Bower, Project Coordinator Ben Archer Health Center 575.373.3096 kbower@bahcnm.org Topics Behavioral health Community health workers...

17. University of Vermont Medical Center's Nursing Home Telepsychiatry Service
Reviewed: Dec 12, 2023

The University of Vermont Medical Center provides telepsychiatry care and education to nursing homes that face shortages of mental health professionals on site.

...workers, to sit in on appointments Encourage family members to participate in appointments Complete assessments and additional studies Set up follow-up visits Contact Information Terry Rabinowitz, MD, DDS, MS University of Vermont College...

18. HealthStreet Cognitive Screening Project
Reviewed: Nov 13, 2023

A Florida university has a boots-on-the-ground effort to do health assessments and screening with a goal of improving rural disparities associated with dementia in minority populations living in rural areas.

...Health Policy definition ( Putnam , Washington , Calhoun , and Jackson ). The department's community engagement program, called HealthStreet , uses certified Community Health Workers...

19. Tomah Hearing Loss Prevention Outreach
Reviewed: Nov 9, 2023

A program to educate farmers on the risks of prolonged, unprotected exposure to high-decibel noises coming from tractors, other loud machinery, and even livestock.

...Tomah Hearing Loss Prevention Outreach --- A program to educate farmers on the risks of prolonged...

20. Richmond Substance Use and Mental Health Mobile Integrated Health Program
Added: Nov 8, 2023

A mobile integrated healthcare program in Richmond, Indiana connects social workers with people who have just experienced a mental health crisis or overdose.

...health treatment to community resources. Intervention: A mobile integrated healthcare (MIH) program that connects social workers...