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121. Innovative Primary Care Delivery in Rural Alaska: A Review of Patient Encounters Seen by Community Health Aides
Date: Jun 2012

Reviews outpatient visits to Community Health Aides (CHAs) and Community Health Practitioners (CHPs) from October 2004 to September 2006 to evaluate the scope of health problems seen by CHA/Ps in remote, rural Alaska to the Alaska Native population. Discusses how the program could serve as a healthcare delivery model for remote areas.

...Health, 71(1) Date 06/2012 Type Document Tagged as Access · American Indian or Alaska Native · Community health workers...

122. Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards
Reviewed: Jan 2024

Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.

...health workforce · Community health workers · Dental workforce · Health workforce shortage designations · Health workforce supply and demand...

123. Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care
Date: Oct 2017

Profiles Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, a nonprofit corporation that established a pilot program to improve the health of rural patients through the use of technology and interdisciplinary care teams working together in Montana's Flathead Valley. Describes a $1 million innovation award from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to support their use of ReSource Teams and help care for high-cost, high-need Medicare patients in the region.

...Health Pilot: Closing the Gaps in Rural Complex Care Link View Resource Additional link Case Study: Shared Military Background Helps Community Health Workers...

124. Advancing Health Equity through Primary Care Policy: Priorities and Recommendations for California
Date: Aug 2024

Provides policy recommendations to improve access to primary care and improve health equity in California, summarizing perspectives and conclusions from policy, primary care, and health equity experts who participated in the 2023 Summit on Primary Care Policy to Advance Health Equity. Covers topics including engagement with community organizations, workforce development, access to care, data sharing, payment, and accountability. Discusses people who live in rural areas and other underserved populations throughout.

...Health Care Foundation Tagged as Access · Community health workers · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Financial aid for health...

125. Promising Practice: Educational Partnership Reaches Rural California Communities
Date: Aug 2019

Details a promising practice that works to expand health literacy among rural Latinos in California through a partnership between the California State Office of Rural Health and the California Department of Public Health's Office of Binational Border Health. Details the way the program is reaching rural Latinos through community health worker/promotores training.

...Health. Details the way the program is reaching rural Latinos through community health worker/promotores training. Date 08/2019 Type Document Organization National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health Tagged as Community health workers...

126. Vivir Mejor! (Live Better!)
Date: Jun 2016

Video highlighting the Vivir Mejor! (Live Better!) program, a comprehensive, culturally competent diabetes education program for Hispanic/Latino populations in rural Arizona. Features program staff and patients sharing how the program impacted the health of people in the region.

...health of people in the region. Date 06/2016 Type Video/Multimedia Organization Rural Health Information Hub Tagged as Chronic disease management · Community health workers...

127. Alaska Community Health Aide Program
Reviewed: Oct 2023

Describes the Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) and the network of Community Health Aides/Practitioners from more than 170 rural Alaska villages. Provides information and resources for training, and completes assessments and referrals for community members in need of healthcare.

...community members in need of healthcare. Type Website Organization Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Tagged as American Indian or Alaska Native · Community health workers...

128. Health without Borders
Date: Jun 2016

Video featuring the Health without Borders (HwoB) program, which uses promotoras to provide immunizations door-to-door. This approach is popular in Mexico and provides a familiar experience for the immigrants that HwoB serves in Luna County, New Mexico. Transcript available in the video description.

...Health Information Hub Tagged as Community health workers · Hispanic or Latino · U.S.-Mexico Border Region...

129. Madison Outreach and Services through Telehealth (MOST) Network
Date: Jul 2016

Video featuring the Madison Outreach Services through Telehealth (MOST) Network, which serves the Hispanic/Latino population of Brazos Valley, Texas. Highlights their partnership with Texas A&M's Telehealth Counseling Clinic, where doctoral-level students and promotoras connect with patients in remote clinics to offer mental health and substance abuse counseling.

...health and substance abuse counseling. Date 07/2016 Type Video/Multimedia Organization Rural Health Information Hub Tagged as Behavioral health · Community health workers...

130. Impact of Community Health Representative-Led Patient Activation and Engagement on Home-Based Kidney Care
Date: 2019

Describes a study examining the effectiveness of a home-based education program for Zuni adults with kidney disease in rural New Mexico. Compares patients' knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their kidney disease; quality of life; and clinical risk factors to patients who received care at local Zuni Indian Health Services clinics. Explores the role of community health representatives as part of the clinical care team.

...American Indian or Alaska Native · Community health workers · Health conditions · Service delivery models · New Mexico...