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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
Impact of Community Health Workers
Webinar Recordings
This webinar discussed how the IMPaCT model systematically addresses those challenges and how hospitals can create an effective, standardized and scalable CHW program.
Using Community Health Workers to Expand Access in Rural Areas
On this Advancing Health podcast, John Supplitt, AHA senior director, speaks to two rural hospital leaders about the importance of implementing an effective community health worker program to expand health care access.
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.
Chair File: Celebrating the Work of Community Health Professionals
This is a great time to use social and traditional media to spotlight how your hospital or health system is helping patients and community members maintain and improve their health every day.
Learn benefits of integrating community health workers into hospital teams
Community health workers can become crucial links between hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve, helping patients overcome barriers to care. Read examples from a recent workshop, and view a resource developed by the AHA and National Urban League to help hospitals and health systems implement successful CHW programs.
The Essential Role of the Registered Nurse and Integration of Community Health Workers into Community Team-Based Care
Other Resources
The evolution of community team-based care acknowledges new and modified roles for clinicians and other care givers, their relationships and customized interactions with patients and families.
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.