Essential Workforce: Integrating Community Health Workers into Primary Care Homes

Year:

2015

State:

NatDoc: National Document

Website Link:

Publicly Available:

Yes

Billing and Reimbursement:

Certification:

CHW role scope of practice, Competencies

Evidence Generation:

Evidence-based interventions

Policy:

General language around CHW WD

Sustainable Financing:

Documentation of how CHWs can work within care teams

Workforce Development:

CDC expand CHW work into SDOH, Data sharing between social services and clinical teams, General other (including mention of “employment practices”), Recruiting and convening CHWs stakeholders

Summary

Discusses the continuum of services that Community Health Workers (CHWs) can provide in a primary care home, benefits and challenges of integrating CHWs into the primary care team, and strategies for recruitment, training, supervision, and retention of CHWs as members of the primary care team.

Essential Workforce: Integrating Community Health Workers into Primary Care Homes

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