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Atrium Health launches new mobile medicine unit thanks to a $1.2 million donation from The Tepper Foundation
The unit funded will provide primary care/screenings in the South Market. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Atrium Health dispatched the first of four mobile medicine units designed to provide high-quality, equitable healthcare in underprivileged communities in the region....
HHS awards $88.6M to bolster community health centers’ data capabilities, plus $59.6M to grow rural healthcare workforce
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...
Nonprofits launch $100M plan to support local health workers
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...
Colorado Rural Health Center Launches Workforce Support Initiative aimed at Community Health Workers
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...
PASOs Releases COVID-19 Impact Report
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 the...
Four academic and community health systems partner to address palliative care disparities among African Americans
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,...
Study Explores Community Health Worker–Led Intervention’s Impact on Acute Care Use, Advance Care Planning, and Patient-Reported Outcomes
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...
Failing to pay or underpaying 6 million women ‘threatens global health security’
Global health security is being undermined by the practice of underpaying or not paying female health workers, a report has said. More than six million women are propping up health systems around the world without being paid in full, Women in Global Health reported,...