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Community Health Workers & Hospitals: Emerging Trends

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A Conversation with Kevin Barnett, Grace Damio, and Carl Rush

What are some of the best or most innovative ways hospitals are using community health workers to improve the health of the communities surrounding them? And what are some barriers and misconceptions that might keep hospitals from using them?

Explore these questions and more in the November 2015 issue of Stakeholder Trends, in this Q&A piece featuring Kevin Barnett, Senior Investigator at the Public Health Institute; Grace Damio, public health nutritionist and Director of Research and Training at the Hispanic Health Council; and Carl Rush, core team member of a policy center on CHWs at the University of Texas – Houston School of Public Health.

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Originally published by Stakeholder Trends


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