News Search Results for: community health workers
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Date: Apr 22, 2024
Describes the role community health workers play in re-entry for recently incarcerated rural Utah residents. Discusses the role of addiction in incarceration and how the program is funded. Source: KFF Health News, CBS News.
...Community Health Workers To Help the Newly Released Succeed --- Describes the role community health workers...
Date: Apr 15, 2024
Discusses the social and economic factors contributing to early mortality for Native Americans. Highlights community health workers, food insecurity, generational trauma, and interventions attempting to reduce disparities. Source: CBS News, KFF Health News.
...Health Care Source CBS News, KFF Health News Link View Full Story Date Apr 15, 2024 Summary Discusses the social and economic factors contributing to early mortality for Native Americans. Highlights community health workers...
Date: Apr 10, 2024
Highlights efforts to reduce maternal mortality in Kentucky by identifying contributing factors and implement best practices in those areas through the Kentucky Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (KyMMM) Task Force. Notes that rural residents and other groups have disparate rates of mortality. In addition to this program, the Perinatal Community Health Worker Program has been established to connect pregnant and postpartum people with culturally relevant services. Offers contact information to learn more about the programs or to explore joining the KyMMM Task Force. Source: UK Now.
...Community health workers · Culture and cultural competency · Health disparities · Maternal health and prenatal care · Mortality...
Date: Apr 10, 2024
Highlights the work of promotoras in rural Northern California including assisting eligible residents with enrolling in Medicaid. Discusses the impact of Health Provider Shortage Areas (HPSAs) on healthcare access, policy, and insurance access for undocumented farmworkers. Source: Ethnic Media Services.
...Community health workers · Culture and cultural competency · Farmers and farmworkers · Health disparities · Health workforce shortage...
Date: Mar 29, 2024
Announces new provisions giving Head Start programs additional flexibility to serve children in tribal communities and children of farmworkers. Tribally-run Head Start programs can enroll children regardless of family income, and any child who has one or more family member engaged in agricultural employment is now eligible for Head Start. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
...Health and Human Services. --- View more Biden-Harris Administration Announces Two Head Start Changes to Serve More Children in Tribal Communities and Children of Agricultural Workers...
Date: Mar 27, 2024
Describes the Minnesota Bienvenido program, which provides support for rural Latino workers who are in high stress jobs with few support structures. Installments help participants connect with the community and learn skills to help manage stress and other emotions. Source: MinnPost.
...community and learn skills to help manage stress and other emotions. Source: MinnPost. --- View more Filling a Gap in Mental Health Care for Minnesota's Migrant Workers...
Date: Apr 22, 2024
Announces three rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services establishing national standards and increasing access to care. "Minimum Staffing Standards for Nursing Homes" aims to improve healthcare quality by setting minimum staffing standards for nursing staff, collecting and reporting on workforce compensation data, and offering incentives for the nurse workforce to work in nursing homes. The 2 remaining rules work together to establish national appointment wait time standards, address payment transparency, and create payment standards for workers providing home and community based services. Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
...workers providing home and community based services. Tagged as Access · Health aides and assistants · Healthcare...