AHA releases guide to build community health worker program

The American Hospital Association (AHA) last week released a guide offering research, resources and case studies to help organizations build a community health worker (CHW) program to strengthen and sustain their health care workforce. CHWs are community members who serve as connectors between health care providers and consumers to promote health among groups that traditionally have been underserved. Despite the many positive contributions CHWs bring to delivering high quality care, they experience significant barriers to becoming integrated members of the clinical care team.