Community health workers put in long hours to protect people in developing countries from diseases such as malaria, Covid-19 and H.I.V. But most are compensated minimally, or not paid at all. Misra ...
President Joe Biden directed funding to increase the community health worker force, but its numbers did not grow by 150,000 during his presidency. Community health workers often labor in underserved ...
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!” ...
Bucking the norm, New York City-based Montefiore has opted to directly employ and embed community health workers within its clinical teams to connect patients with social services as part of broader ...
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 ...
The New York City Department of Health is pitching a major, yearslong expansion of community health worker programs as a way to tackle chronic disease and extend New Yorkers’ life expectancy. In a new ...
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