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 (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 ...

Western Nevada College Continuing Education is launching an eight-week Community Health Worker training program beginning Oct. 1. The program provides a low-barrier entry point into the healthcare ...

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 ...

The Healing Centered Learning (HCL) program provides an innovative 18-week training for trauma-impacted young adults (18-24) to become dual certified as Community Health Workers (CHW) and Peer ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Through a federal grant, the HAP Foundation will partner with organizations in Macon County, where their community health workers will train and engage with the community.

The key to unlocking improved health outcomes in the United States has been in our hands for hundreds of years: community health workers. Also known as community outreach workers, patient navigators, ...