NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx was delivering her start-of-shift updates and mantras — “Covid is not finished with us … clean, clean, clean!” ...

Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...

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 ...

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.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is improving patient experience and reducing the burden on providers with a new program that recruits and trains reskilled workers. Jefferson’s Community Health ...

In 2006, Tina Brown sat next to a Black colleague at a work meeting who shared she had just been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Triple-negative is a highly aggressive form of breast ...

NEW YORK - Montefiore Health System in the Bronx has a program that looks beyond medicine to help people. Montefiore screened 200,000 people for social detriments of health, and found at least 20% ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – A pediatric neurologist who treats children with epilepsy told lawmakers Monday that she’s still grappling with the loss of her team’s only community health worker, who helped families ...

New York City is trying to address both the growing mental health crisis and a shortage of workers in the behavioral health field through a city-run apprenticeship program.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Community health workers serve vulnerable populations on ...

TEMPE, AZ — Arizona State University is looking to train community health workers (CHW) to serve our medically underserved communities. The College of Health Solutions just got a $3 million grant from ...

A new Tucson-based ASU program provides training and support for frontline public health workers who work outside a traditional medical setting but have a deep understanding of the communities they ...