Community health workers can reduce hospital visits by helping patients better manage diabetes, lower their BP and cholesterol, and stay up to date on cancer screenings, a speaker at the Annual Rural Health Conference said.
Community health workers (CHWs) may also reduce health care disparities due to their ability to help patients navigate the health care system, which is “complicated and so fraught with ways to not be eligible or not get into different programs,” Jane Bolin, PhD, JD, BSN, an associate dean for research in the College of Nursing and the deputy director of the