Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella term ...

SARCOA and Community Care Solutions (CCS) have earned rare double recognition in the federal Health at Home Challenge, a national competition run by the Administration for Community Living within the ...

Those voices help paint a clearer picture of what influences health across Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe and White counties — in our hospitals, neighborhoods, schools and workplaces.

Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

A visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif., on April 2, 2015. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) Veterans Affairs leaders are phasing out the department’s office in ...

Objectives: To quantify community care consultations for patients with newly diagnosed diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), identify associated patient- and facility-level chara ...

WASHINGTON — A sharp rise in the number of patients that the Department of Veterans Affairs refers to private community-based doctors for medical care is emptying VA exam rooms and eroding services, ...