Nolga Valadez knows that her work for Three Square, which provides food to those in need, consists of more than offering sustenance. After a course in bilingual community health worker training, ...
Effective chronic disease patient management is possible when a strong medical service team is in place comprising social workers and community health care workers. Such a team can improve the quality ...
Community healthcare workers have been on the job since the 1960s, particularly in rural and low-income areas. Today, their numbers are growing. E+ Getty Images On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a ...
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 ...
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today community health care workers at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) will rally to demand that their employer address the severe underfunding and ...
On a recent Monday, Sandy Guzman, a community health worker in rural Oregon, drove to visit a patient in her 60s in a small city called The Dalles. The patient lived alone, and “really struggles with ...
With health care cuts an ongoing concern for people across the U.S., here’s what should concern New Yorkers the most: the health care workforce shortage, with unfilled positions straining services ...
The District needs to develop and hire community health care workers to reach poor residents who don’t have access to doctors and hospitals, according to a study by The Brookings Institution. The ...