Models & Innovations Search Results for: community health workers
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Reviewed: Dec 17, 2019
Genesis HealthCare System, Zanesville, Ohio, created a post-discharge care coordination program with impact not only on readmission rates, but access to acute and chronic care.
...workers and appropriate community agencies for any specific assistance. No start-up funding was utilized since Genesis administration recognized that sustainable financial and patient-care benefits would likely emerge once the program was operational...
Reviewed: Dec 23, 2019
In Virginia's Tidewater area, remote home monitoring with a behavioral health component improves readmission rates.
...Health Coaches Training: Health coaches were hired through Bay Aging's Eastern Virginia Care Transitions Partnership . With backgrounds in varied healthcare fields (for example, community health workers...
Reviewed: Feb 14, 2020
To meet the unique oral health needs of patients in rural and underserved areas, a special training program, RIDE, was created by the University of Washington's School of Dentistry.
...community practitioners for instruction on clinical rotations. The RIDE dental students take first year courses with WWAMI medical students and will spend over 40% of their educational time in Washington's rural and remote areas...
Reviewed: Feb 27, 2020
A collaborative care program that connects rural residents with primary care providers, active nurse case managers, and integrated community resource workers to help reduce diabetes, depression, and stroke risk.
...community resource workers to help reduce diabetes, depression, and stroke risk. --- View more Medical Home Plus Summary Need: To help reduce diabetes, depression, and stroke risk in rural residents. Intervention: A collaborative care model...
Reviewed: May 2, 2020
A program that uses community health workers to create a system of coordinated care in order to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in rural Colorado.
...health literacy, rural social/cultural challenges, and an aging population also present challenges when serving residents. The program overcomes these issues using a community-based support system provided by Community Health Workers...
Reviewed: May 5, 2020
An outreach education program for agricultural producers and Pennsylvania's diverse farmworker population on complying with Environmental Protection Agency regulations on the safe use of pesticides.
...health insurance via the Health Insurance Marketplace Results The Rural Health Farm Worker Protection Safety Specialist has conducted compliance assistance visits for more than 1,000 farms, greenhouses, nurseries, and orchards since 2006. Visits have...
Added: May 12, 2020
By improving diabetes quality measures and decreasing healthcare costs, a community health worker-based Chronic Care Management program implemented in a 3-state area of Appalachia gained sustainability due to insurance carrier support.
...health workers Diabetes Philanthropy Reimbursement and payment models Social determinants of health States served Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia Date added May 12, 2020 Suggested citation: Rural Health Information Hub, 2020. Community...
Reviewed: Jul 6, 2020
A pay-for-outcomes approach that uses community health workers to ensure at-risk community members receive needed evidence-based health and social services.
...health and social services. --- View more NEON Pathways Community Hub Summary Need: Connect individuals to services that address health barriers. Intervention: A pay-for-outcomes model utilizing Community Health Workers...
Reviewed: Aug 24, 2020
The San Luis Valley Area Health Education Center has initiated opioid-related education efforts for health workers and the larger community in addition to establishing a naloxone distribution program.
...Health Education Center has initiated opioid-related education efforts for health workers and the larger community...
Reviewed: Nov 23, 2020
Free health screenings, health coaching, and community referrals provided in-home or on-site for Wisconsin farmers and agribusinesses.
...community and Hispanic workers. Assisting residents of Wisconsin's Shawano, Outagamie, and Waupaca counties, the program is delivered by trained Outreach Health...