Oklahoma’s health department is promoting community health workers who assist residents with accessing healthcare and social services, improving mental and physical health, and addressing local needs.

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 ...

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 ...

Rabih Torbay is president and CEO of Project HOPE, in Washington, D.C. Reducing the barriers to care inside the US public health system is not a small job. The costs are prohibitive, the workers are ...

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, ...

KUTV — As National Community Health Worker Awareness Week (NCHWAW) approaches, it's time to spotlight a crucial yet often underappreciated segment of the healthcare system: Community Health Workers ...

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 1989—the year we were both born—the world seemed to be unraveling. The U.S. invaded Panama. Thousands were massacred in Tiananmen Square. The Exxon Valdez spilled millions of gallons of oil into ...

Nolga Valadez knows that her work for Three Square, which provides food to those in need, consists of more than offering sustenance. After a course in bilingual community health worker training, ...

The state health department is educating Oklahomans about the work community health workers do in Oklahoma. Community health workers like Misty Wilson help make communities better because they take ...