Community Health Workers’ Role in DSMES and Prediabetes
In communities most affected by prediabetes and diabetes, CHWs can work collaboratively with diabetes educators to activate CDC-recognized lifestyle change programs, extend the reach of diabetes prevention and DSMES care teams, and facilitate strategies that reduce health disparities in their own communities. When diabetes educators support CHWs in their role to deliver current, accurate, and […]
California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM): High Level Summary
The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has developed a framework for the upcoming waiver renewals that encompasses broader delivery system, program and payment reform across the Medi-Cal program, called CalAIM: California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal. CalAIM advances several key priorities of the Administration by leveraging Medicaid as a tool to help address many of […]
Community Health Workers: Bringing a New Era of Systems Change to Stimulate Investments in Health Care for Vulnerable US Populations
This editorial uses a previous study as part of an ongoing discussion of how best to bring CHWs into systems of care under complex financial structures to meet the vital health needs of the most vulnerable US populations. We have a new era of increasing acceptance of the role of community health workers (CHWs) as […]
New ‘Baltimore Health Corps’ to Hire and Train Hundreds of Jobless Residents to Serve Neighborhoods Hardest-Hit by COVID-19
Press release regarding an innovative pilot program to equitably address Baltimore’s public health and employment challenges. The Baltimore Health Corps will recruit, train, and employ more than 300 residents who are currently jobless during the pandemic to serve as contact tracers and care coordinators for Baltimore City residents. Health Corps staff will be deployed to […]
Community Health Workers and Pandemic Preparedness: Current and Prospective Roles
Despite the importance of community health workers (CHWs) to health systems in resource-constrained environments, relatively little has been written about their contributions to pandemic preparedness. In this perspective piece, we draw from the response to the 2014 Ebola and 2015 Zika epidemics to review examples whereby CHWs contributed to health security and pandemic preparedness. CHWs […]
Community Health Worker Workforce: Assessment of the Integration and Financing of Community Health Workers within Arizona Medicaid Health Plans
The Center for Health Equity Research at Northern Arizona University (CHER-NAU) through funding from the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and in collaboration with the University of Arizona, Arizona Prevention Research Center (AzPRC) aimed to engage Arizona health plan leadership in conversations about the integration and sustainability of the Community Health Worker (CHW) workforce […]
Promotor(a) or Community Health Worker Administrative Rules 25 Texas Administrative Code §146.1- §146.8 – Summary of Changes implemented in 2019
Contains edits to definitions, material developed by DSHS or HHSC directly certified by the department, details for training program application, as well as for CHW and Instructor renewal requirements, and modifications to professional and ethical standards enforcement.
Bringing Community-Based Doula Care To New Jersey
Community-based doula care provides a powerful and personalized strategy for improving birth outcomes for mothers and babies. From prenatal planning to postpartum visits, doula care can impact more than a patient’s experience. Evidence demonstrates that doula care can play an important role in improving health outcomes by acting as a mitigating factor for maternal mortality, […]
Taking Innovation to Scale: Community Health Workers, Promotores, and the Triple Aim
This brief report provides an overview of preliminary findings, observations and recommendations from the California Health Workforce Alliance’s (CHWA) assessment of the current level of engagement and roles of community health workers among California’s health care safety net providers, and their contributions towards the achievement of the Triple Aim objectives. This study is intended to […]
Supervision Strategies and Community Health Worker Effectiveness in Health Care Settings
In the United States, supportive supervision is crucial to the effective integration of CHWs into institutional workflows, which is in turn fundamental to achieving the mission of health care and public health organizations. The integration of CHWs is a nuanced and contextualized endeavor in both public health and health care settings, and so too must […]
