In the U.S., where many minority populations have deeply rooted distrust of the medical system due to historical and ongoing barriers to high-quality care, it can be helpful when trained members of ...

Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

Ohio University’s CHW program has trained more than 500 participants since 2015, growing a community health workforce across ...

At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...

A groundbreaking initiative led by the Intermountain Health Community Health Team and Cheryl Swapp, a dedicated community health worker with the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Department, has significantly ...

Ohio University is offering a Community Health Worker Training Program at its Lancaster campus, starting Jan. 12 and running through May 2. The program, hosted by the Alliance for Population Health, ...

Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

HURON, S.D. — Kelly Engebretson was excited to get fitted for a prosthetic after having part of his leg amputated. But he wasn't sure how he'd get to the appointment. Nah Thu Thu Win's twin sons ...

More than two years after it was promised, Connecticut’s Medicaid program still does not cover community health worker ...

The Mississippi State Department of Health is overhauling its home visitation and care management program for high-risk pregnant women and infants in an effort to move the needle on the state’s high ...

If becoming a healthcare worker is a career ambition for you in 2026, Western Nevada College is making it easier than ever to ...