Across the Big Bend, we know what it means to look out for one another – checking on an elderly neighbor during hurricane season, bringing a meal to a friend after surgery or simply showing up when ...

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...

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 ...

Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

Trust, especially when it comes to health, is an act of deep vulnerability. Particularly when you don’t feel like anyone else truly understands what you’re going through, where you’ve been or the hard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan’s announcement of $173 million in federal funding to strengthen rural health care is more than a budget headline – it’s a ...

At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...

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 ...

For more than 80 years, Bi-Rite, a family-owned grocery store on Belair Road, gave residents of Northeast Baltimore a place to buy affordable produce, send money and cash checks. But by the time a ...

More than two years after it was promised, Connecticut’s Medicaid program still does not cover community health worker ...