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!” ...

In the U.S., where many minority populations have deeply rooted distrust of the medical system due to historical and ongoing barriers to high-quality care, it can be helpful when trained members of ...

A medical appointment can address a diagnosis, but getting healthy can depend just as much on whether someone has food, ...

Community health workers, often referred to as uncles and aunties, provide essential guidance and support that formal health professionals may not offer. Need help navigating WIC? “Call Auntie; she ...

Medicaid programs are leveraging community health workers (CHWs) to improve patient navigation, quality of care, and cultural competency, a Manatt Health newsletter found. “The use of CHWs increased ...

A hospital program embedding a Black community health worker on medicine wards improved trust and communication for Black patients while exposing the financing and integration hurdles such ...

This spring, Central Oregon Community College’s Madras campus will offer introductory training for the first time for people who want to become community health workers. It’s the first step toward ...

Here, and at other medical centers across the country, an unsung workforce ensures that all patients have the best possible access to care—community health workers. “Community health workers are ...

This story has been updated. The House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill — later approved by the Senate — that included a last minute amendment that, among other measures, taps ...

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In 2006, Tina Brown sat next to a Black colleague at a work meeting who shared she had just been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Triple-negative is a highly aggressive form of breast ...