A first-in-kind program that trains trusted older adult community health workers to fit and deliver low-cost hearing technology to peers with hearing loss significantly improved communication function ...

New Orleans-based DePaul Community Health Centers has been awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand a community health worker program. DCHC’s ...

A groundbreaking initiative led by the Intermountain Health Community Health Team and Cheryl Swapp, a dedicated community health worker with the Sanpete County Sheriff’s Department, has significantly ...

The sun rises over the Sanpete County Jail and Sheriff’s Office outside Manti, Utah, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Lillian Mongeau Hughes for KFF Health News) MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent ...

Supporting Your Needs in Community Healthcare (SYNCH) is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration community health worker training program designed ...

Kettering College landed a $1.8 federal grant to help it start a program that will grow the public health workforce in the region. The grant was awarded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services ...

A Santa Clara program designed to mitigate healthcare obstacles for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities is now backed with $1 million in federal funding, announced county supervisors on ...

LAWERENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - It can be hard to find someone to trust when it comes to your health. Ohio University has been offering a program for the past few years to help with this issue. They ...

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.

Nirmal Singh and Daljit Kaur outside the apartment building where they live in Fresno. The husband and wife both have vision problems but couldn’t afford to see an eye doctor. They also didn’t know ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon Community College’s public health discipline will begin offering a one-year certificate in community health this fall, the first of its kind in the state, ...