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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,...
IDPH provides $10 million to Illinois community health workers expanding mission
SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) - The Illinois Public Health Association and Illinois Primary Health Care Association helped train 650 people to be health care workers in their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. These pandemic health navigators served people in 92 counties,...
Certification for community health workers opens doors for culturally competent care in Kansas
Kansas has recently taken steps to create additional support for community health workers (CHWs) and the care they provide for communities around the state. "This year, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced a new certification for these health...
Latino Vaccination Rates Increase in Response to PASOs Outreach Efforts in South Carolina
Epidemiology student Samantha Rieche and The Center for Community Health Alignment communications coordinator Richard Strater explain how PASOs has helped mitigate #COVID19 #HealthDisparities in SC through increased #vaccination rates in Latino communities.➡️...