At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...
Van Dexter, a community health worker and medical student in the United States, grew up in a rural community in the Philippines, where he says he observed health care disparities firsthand. Van Dexter ...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Reporting ...
Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...
Regina Gully knows what it’s like to need help and not know where to turn. Now, as a community health worker with Trinity Health, she spends her days making sure others don’t have to feel that way.