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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.

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.

Members in Action Case Study: Penn Center for Community Health Workers

Penn Medicine’s Center for Community Health Workers (PCCHW) has served as a national center of excellence for community health worker (CHW) research, patient care and dissemination. The Center designed IMPaCT, a standardized, scalable, evidence-based CHW model of care, to help health care organizations reach beyond their own walls to help low-income patients address the root causes of their poor health.

Building a Community Health Worker Program

Toolkits/Methodology
This Community Health Worker toolkit will cover what Community Health Worker programs are and what is suggested to implement a program on your own as well as the benefits to your organization, your patients and your community.

Case Study: Bon Secours Baltimore Health System

West Baltimore Primary Care Access Collaborative

Case Study: Greenville Health System

PASOs (STEPS)
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Building A Community Health Worker Program: The Key to Better Care, Better Outcomes, & Lower Costs

As a part of the community health worker initiative, the AHA and the NUL hosted the Community Health Worker Consortium in Chicago, IL.

Community Health Worker Consortium Proceedings

Increasing American Hospital Association Members’ Utilization of Community Health Workers on Clinical Care Teams Community health workers (CHW) are community members who work in the commu