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Building and Sustaining a Health Care Workforce: Community Health Workers
These resources will guide hospitals toward building a Community health workers (CHW) program to strengthen and sustain their health care workforce.
4 Ways to Address Top 2024 Challenges
As health care continues to transform in 2024, executives will face challenges related to finances, technology, workforce and other areas. Across the field, thought leaders have been busy offering their best guesses, insights and predictions for how this year is likely to shake out.
AHA #HealthCareInnovation blog: Helping community health workers advance community health
Chicago-based RUSH University Medical Center launched its Community Health Workers Hub in 2018 to provide CHWs with the support they need to help combat health and life expectancy inequities throughout the city of Chicago.
Innovations in Improving Community Health: The CHW Hub at RUSH
Community health workers have become an essential component of RUSH University Medical Center’s efforts to minimize inequities in health and life expectancy. CHWs provide much-needed resources across the RUSH campus and several Chicago neighborhoods, while also being a driving force for partnerships and programming in a variety of care and community settings.
Henry Ford Hospital | Michigan
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is the flagship hospital of Henry Ford Health, one of the nation's largest integrated health care systems. Henry Ford Hospital maintains 877 beds and is distinguished for its exceptional performance in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, transplant procedures, and cancer care.
AHA podcast: A Workforce for the New Era of Equitable Health Care
Hear from three experts who believe that expanding and integrating the talent pool of community health workers into America's hospitals and health systems could provide a bridge to meeting future health care needs.
Foster G. McGaw Prize Finalist Cedars-Sinai on Its Commitment to Community Health and Health Equity
The AHA’s prestigious Foster G. McGaw Prize honors health delivery organizations that have demonstrated a strategic approach to community health and health equity.
AHA releases guide to building a community health worker program
The guide offers resources to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen their health care workforce.
Organizations can apply for ARPA grants to train community health workers
Nonprofit organizations, academic health centers, health professions schools, and state and local governments can apply through June 14.
Enhancing Understanding of Your Community’s Health and Social Needs — Together
Enhancing Understanding of Your Community’s Health and Social Needs — Together
Wednesday, June 9, 2021