Apprenticeships Answer Emerging Workforce Demands: Workforce Capacities Case Study
Results from a 2015 SI PPS partner survey indicated unmet training and job development needs. Health care delivery is moving towards a greater emphasis on community-focused care, creating new positions such as community health worker (CHW) and certified peer recovery advocate (CPRA). To help hospitals and health systems meet emerging workforce demands, SI PPS developed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Medicaid Access & Coverage in 2019: Results from the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s 2020 Annual Medicaid Managed Care Survey
This third Annual Medicaid Managed Care Survey represents the first-of-its-kind comprehensive effort to collect robust, longitudinal data on Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs). Our intention is that the survey findings contained in this report will equip Medicaid stakeholders with the information they need to accurately articulate the national narrative about Medicaid managed care.
An Emerging Model for Community Health Worker–Based Chronic Care Management for Patients With High Health Care Costs in Rural Appalachia
Community health workers (CHWs) can improve patients’ health by providing them with ongoing behavioral support during the health care experience, and they help decrease health care costs, especially among patients whose starting costs are high and among underserved and minority populations. We developed a CHW-based care model with the aim of improving outcomes and lowering […]
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 […]
State of Arizona House Bill 2324
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding article 7.1, to read: ARTICLE 7.1. COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS. Includes definitions, certification application and renewal guidelines, and duties of the CHW advisory council.
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 […]
