Gilead Foundation today announced a $12 million investment in 33 community‑based organizations across 14 states and the District of Columbia through its Community Health Worker (CHW) Comprehensive HIV ...

The Health Zones effort aims to improve healthcare access, reduce emergency utilization and support residents with chronic conditions.

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 ...

Public health crises often converge, creating syndemics that exacerbate their collective impact. The intersecting challenges of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and opioid overdoses illustrate this phenomenon, ...

Council voted unanimously to expand the program, which began as a covid-era pilot to address housing instability, access to health services and economic disruption.

The saying “not all heroes wear capes” is certainly true with community health workers. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker with lived experience and local knowledge, ...

HOSPITAL, OR EVEN THE EMERGENCY ROOM, YOU’RE OFTEN ASKED TO FILL OUT A SURVEY ABOUT YOUR WELL-BEING. A LOCAL HEALTH SYSTEM IS PROUD OF THE WAY THEY FOLLOW UP. THEY BELIEVE THEIR HUMAN CONNECTIONS ARE ...

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 ...