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When Medicaid programs integrate promotoras and community health workers effectively, they register a 30% drop in costs for high-risk patient populations.
Hundreds of Fort Collins community members lined South College Avenue from Mulberry Street to Horsetooth Road in protest of President Donald Trump’s administration and to celebrate International ...
A report calls for the integration of community health workers into early childhood well-child care.
The Common Health Coalition, whose mission is to strengthen partnership between healthcare and public health, announced 11 Catalyst Awards recipients as part of its inaugural Common Health Challenge.
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 ...
Community health workers (CHWs) have essential roles in the delivery of health services and have increasingly been the focus of research over the last few decades.1 Despite this, CHWs are often ...
Health coalitions did the research, coordinated with donors, and secured strong government buy-in. Now, community health workers are finally getting the credit—and pay—they deserve.
An impetus of the event was the groundbreaking installation, More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022, that resulted from a collaboration between ...
The Common Health Coalition's Challenge on Community Health Workers is designed to advance meaningful CHW initiatives through partnerships between healthcare and public health ...
The AHA highlighted the importance of community health workers during the Common Health Coalition’s inaugural Common Health Challenge held Dec. 9.