Efforts to improve dementia care in primary care settings may benefit from additional support for patients and caregivers, including the use of community health workers and earlier attention to ...

The saying “not all heroes wear capes” is certainly true with community health workers. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker with lived experience and local knowledge, ...

Here, and at other medical centers across the country, an unsung workforce ensures that all patients have the best possible access to care—community health workers. “Community health workers are ...

Effective chronic disease patient management is possible when a strong medical service team is in place comprising social workers and community health care workers. Such a team can improve the quality ...

Walae Hayek of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, Lissette Blondet of the Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers, and Suzanne Curry of Health Care For All testified on ...

Regina Gully knows what it’s like to need help and not know where to turn. Now, as a community health worker with Trinity Health, she spends her days making sure others don’t have to feel that way.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Latino patients who participated in monthly community health worker sessions had less interdialytic weight gain.

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 17, 2019, a community health worker prepares to vaccinate children against measles outside of Kuajok, South Sudan. As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Community health workers, known as promotores de salud in Spanish, are more than just health advocates — they're the frontliners ...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last week members of CUPE 5399, which represents over 120 health care workers at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) in Toronto’s east end, were able to reach ...

Community health workers are a vital but often overlooked part of Michigan’s health system, especially as recent federal Medicaid cuts threaten coverage and funding for essential services. They help ...

CARE and Surgo Health today announced a new partnership to pilot an AI-enabled system designed to strengthen community health delivery by listening to and learning from frontline health workers in ...