Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina Presentation
Presentation on the Triple Aim, Alliance goals, and DHHS goals, and Medicaid enrollment.
Community Health Worker Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently asked questions regarding CHW definitions, roles, goals, job duties, case load expectations, curriculum, training, grandfathering, employment, billing codes, supervision, documentation and reporting expectations, and liability.
Impact 2016 Presentation
Just like past generations of immigrants to the United States, Latino families who come to South Carolina do so with dreams to work hard, build better lives for themselves and their children, and contribute to their new communities. PASOs admires and supports their goals. The incredible PASOs team works every day to ensure Latino families […]
Potential Health and Saving Impacts of Community Health Workers (CHWs): A Policy Brief
Unequal health outcomes disproportionately affect minorities and other low-socioeconomic populations. The usage and reimbursement of Community Health Workers (CHWs) throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania could potentially preserve resources. Medicaid, the public insurer for many of these individuals, expenditures totaled $20,393,353,134 for FY 2012 in Pennsylvania. Early research concerning return on investment indicated that for a […]
Presentation Q&A
Questions and answers about CHWs, reimbursement, and working with healthcare managers.
Action Template – Training
Workgroup meeting template for training.
Action Template – Employer
Workgroup meeting template for employers best practices.
Action Template – Policy
Workgroup meeting template for policy.
Penn’s IMPaCT program cracked the code of deploying community health workers – and you can, too
Advisory Board webpage describing the IMPaCT program’s ability to deploy CHWs and how others can utilize CHWs to address social determinants of health.
Community Health Worker Support for Disadvantaged Patients with Multiple Chronic Diseases: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Objectives. To determine whether a community health worker (CHW) intervention improved outcomes in a low income population with multiple chronic conditions. Methods. We conducted a single-blind, randomized clinical trial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2013–2014). Participants (n = 302) were high-poverty neighborhood residents, uninsured or publicly insured, and diagnosed with 2 or more chronic diseases (diabetes, obesity, […]