by Rich Strater | Aug 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Nearly $90 million is going out to almost 1,400 nationwide community health centers to beef up patient data capabilities. The move will support better health equity during ongoing and future public health emergencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
by Rich Strater | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in up to 10 countries mostly in Africa by 2030 to support up to 200,000 community health workers A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in 10 countries, mostly in Africa, by 2030 to...
by Rich Strater | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
The statewide organization was recently awarded a Workforce Grant to Aide in the Recruitment and Retention of Community Health Workers in Rural Environments AURORA, CO, July 30, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ — The Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) has launched a...
by Rich Strater | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Report Details Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SC Resulting from COVID-19 Columbia, SC – A recently published COVID-19 impact report details the effects of the pandemic and how one organization worked to provide support to minority populations. Over...
by Rich Strater | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
African Americans are 50 percent less likely to access or receive palliative care than white patients because of racism, a lack of cultural understanding among physicians and a history of distrust in the health care system among African American patients. As a result,...
by Rich Strater | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
In a single-institution study reported in JAMA Oncology, Manali I. Patel, MD, MPH, MS, and colleagues found that the addition of a community health worker–led intervention to usual care resulted in reduced use of acute care, increased advance care planning...