Community health workers help people understand medical instructions, keep appointments and address social stressors. As a result, they reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and hospital ...

Community health workers step in before a crisis, helping our neighbors stay on track, stay healthy and stay out of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Kayla Fogle and Lysaih Rice, community health workers with the Jefferson County General Health District, have been fully certified through the Ohio Board of Nursing, district officials have announced.

Shanon Seymore had given up. Diagnosed with a rare bleeding disorder called von Willebrand disease, she was in constant pain, unable to work, and on the verge of eviction from her Pontiac home.

HOSPITAL, OR EVEN THE EMERGENCY ROOM, YOU’RE OFTEN ASKED TO FILL OUT A SURVEY ABOUT YOUR WELL-BEING. A LOCAL HEALTH SYSTEM IS PROUD OF THE WAY THEY FOLLOW UP. THEY BELIEVE THEIR HUMAN CONNECTIONS ARE ...

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.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — An Arkansas law that is set to take effect next month is promising to help improve rural health disparities. Act 435, The Community Health Workers Act does two things: Creates a ...

AHEC, have any idea what that acronym stands for? Neither did I, but when I got the gist of it, I realized that it offers opportunities for folks that might just open doors along the way. It is the ...

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