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dc.contributor.authorLondon, Katharine
dc.contributor.authorRussell, Kate
dc.date2022-08-11T08:08:06.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T15:42:31Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T15:42:31Z
dc.date.issued2015-07-28
dc.date.submitted2017-12-18
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/26868
dc.description<p>Client/Partner: Connecticut Health Foundation</p>
dc.description.abstractCommunity health workers (CHW) can improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities and contain costs, according to a brief authored by health policy experts at UMass Medical School and released by the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health). Tomorrow’s Health Care System Needs Community Health Workers: A Policy Agenda for Connecticut lays out steps Connecticut can take to cultivate and integrate a robust community health worker workforce in the state’s health care system. The policy brief was written by Katharine London, MS; Margaret Carey, MPH; and Kate Russell, MA; of the Center for Health Law and Economics, a unit within UMass Medical School’s Commonwealth Medicine division. CT Health commissioned the analysis. The policy brief cites research showing that CHWs can improve health outcomes and contain costs. It argues that CHWs can help clinical practices meet new quality standards – such as providing recommended preventive screenings and reducing the need for expensive emergency department visits – and earn higher payments from health plans. Furthermore, new federal rules make it easier for state Medicaid programs to pay for CHW services. The authors also outline the key steps that Connecticut can take to cultivate a robust CHW workforce.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.cthealth.org/publication/chw-policy-agenda/
dc.subjectConnecticut
dc.subjectcommunity health workers
dc.subjectworkforce development
dc.subjectCommunity Health and Preventive Medicine
dc.subjectHealth Economics
dc.subjectHealth Law and Policy
dc.subjectHealth Policy
dc.subjectHealth Services Administration
dc.subjectHealth Services Research
dc.titleTomorrow’s Health Care System Needs Community Health Workers: A Policy Agenda
dc.typeWhite Paper
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/commed_pubs/106
dc.identifier.contextkey11269347
html.description.abstract<p>Community health workers (CHW) can improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities and contain costs, according to a brief authored by health policy experts at UMass Medical School and released by the Connecticut Health Foundation (CT Health).</p> <p><em>Tomorrow’s Health Care System Needs Community Health Workers: A Policy Agenda for Connecticut</em><em> </em>lays out steps Connecticut can take to cultivate and integrate a robust community health worker workforce in the state’s health care system. The policy brief was written by Katharine London, MS; Margaret Carey, MPH; and Kate Russell, MA; of the Center for Health Law and Economics, a unit within UMass Medical School’s Commonwealth Medicine division. CT Health commissioned the analysis.</p> <p>The policy brief cites research showing that CHWs can improve health outcomes and contain costs. It argues that CHWs can help clinical practices meet new quality standards – such as providing recommended preventive screenings and reducing the need for expensive emergency department visits – and earn higher payments from health plans. Furthermore, new federal rules make it easier for state Medicaid programs to pay for CHW services.</p> <p>The authors also outline the key steps that Connecticut can take to cultivate a robust CHW workforce.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathcommed_pubs/106
dc.contributor.departmentCommonwealth Medicine, Center for Health Law and Economics


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