To effectively serve communities in crisis, hospitals and health systems must adopt a larger scale, population-based approach ...

In the U.S., over 350,000 undocumented immigrants and nearly 700,000 documented immigrants work in healthcare, researchers estimated. Noncitizen immigrants, both documented and undocumented, made up ...

Classes for the 40-hour Community Health Worker Training program at Western Nevada College are available on the Carson City and Fallon campuses starting in early March. Credit: Western Nevada College ...

Councilmembers serve as liaisons to various City boards and commissions and as the City’s representatives to outside agencies and organizations. The Council will update these assignments to include ...

If becoming a healthcare worker is a career ambition for you in 2026, Western Nevada College is making it easier than ever to take that first step. Through its Community Health Worker (CHW) program, ...

Community health workers were integrated into primary care to deliver age-friendly care services to rural older adults. Initial results indicated a reduction in hospitalizations, with positive ...

About an hour-and-a-half drive east of Reykjavík, Iceland, is the ecovillage of Sólheimar. Sesselja Sigmundsdóttir started the community in 1930 as a foster home for children with mental challenges. A ...

Access Community Action Agency will lay off some employees, including senior management, by January 2026. The agency is shutting down its residential and community health worker programs due to ...

The United States is expected to adopt the vaccine schedule used by Denmark, a much smaller country with universal health care. By Amelia Nierenberg and Maya Tekeli Amelia Nierenberg reported from ...

Vivian Ho has received grant funding from HCSC Affordability Cures Initiative and ArnoldVentures. She is a Fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy Salpy Kanimian does not work ...

New research from Columbia University suggests that nontraditional benefits, including flexible schedules and access to child care, may help keep public health workers under 35 on the job. A ...

Background Community health workers (CHWs) have been instrumental in the delivery of primary healthcare (PHC) services in Rwanda since 1995, with their responsibilities expanding from basic health ...