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 ...

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 ...

When state leaders, community health worker advocates, and experts come together to implement proven infrastructure and evidence-based program standards, powerful results can occur at scale. Despite ...

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.

In rural communities, access to health care can sometimes depend on more than hospitals or clinics. Trusted community members often play a vital role in helping people navigate services, access ...

In our latest "Five questions with" series, meet Cindy Linger, executive director of Access Health Stark County.

A newly published report developed by a group of partners, including Sanofi, shines a light on the far-reaching impacts of well-funded community health worker (CHW) programs. CHWs are public health ...

Walae Hayek of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, Lissette Blondet of the Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers, and Suzanne Curry of Health Care For All testified on ...