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!” ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - Montefiore Health System in the Bronx has a program that looks beyond medicine to help people. Montefiore screened 200,000 people for social detriments of health, and found at least 20% ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — IU Health leaders on Tuesday said they hope a new approach to patient care leads to long-term savings and better health outcomes. State lawmakers in 2021 set aside $50 million in ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden directed funding to increase the community health worker force, but its numbers did not grow by 150,000 during his presidency. Community health workers often labor in underserved ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Richmond and Henrico Health Districts (RHHD) are shining a light on community health workers in recognition of National Community Health Worker Awareness Week. The week, ...

Headquartered in Arlington, Va., Evolent Health is trying to change how providers get paid. At least that’s why Frank Williams, CEO and co-founder of the organization, started Evolent: to help ...

For more than 80 years, Bi-Rite, a family-owned grocery store on Belair Road, gave residents of Northeast Baltimore a place to buy affordable produce, send money and cash checks. But by the time a ...