NEW YORK — A nurse supervisor at Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center in the Bronx was delivering her start-of-shift updates and mantras — “Covid is not finished with us … clean, clean, clean!” ...

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 ...

Rabih Torbay is president and CEO of Project HOPE, in Washington, D.C. Reducing the barriers to care inside the US public health system is not a small job. The costs are prohibitive, the workers are ...

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 are often unsung heroes who help people in need to navigate the complex health care system or find solutions to other aspects of life that impact health like housing and jobs.

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Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 17, 2019, a community health worker prepares to vaccinate children against measles outside of Kuajok, South Sudan. As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil ...