Community health worker definition

Community health worker means an individual who:
Community health worker means an individual who meets qualification criteria adopted
Community health worker means an individual, as defined in ORS 414.025, who assists members of the community to improve their health and increase the capacity of the community to achieve wellness and meet the health care needs of its residents.

Examples of Community health worker in a sentence

  • Community health worker intervention to decrease cervical cancer disparities in Hispanic women.

  • Public health professionals are defined as one of the following: • Community health worker (requires DSHS certification) • Program manager • Public health nurse (requires active license with the Texas Board of Nursing) • Communication and policy experts • Case investigator • Contact tracer • Social support specialist • Disease intervention specialist • Epidemiologist • Laboratory personnel • Informaticians • Other positions required to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19 as approved by HHSC.

  • Design and develop conference materials; Nursing/Physician RHD Manual and presentation Power Points; Nursing educational tools to support their ability to educate patient and families; Teacher manual & RHD teaching activities for students; and Community health worker manual & community posters.

  • Billing by the CTC practice site would not occur for CHT shared services that have been paid for through the CHT funding (e.g. CHT entity Community health worker, licensed social worker, pharmacist, etc.).

  • No / Yes - Traditional healer / Yes - Community health worker / Yes - Family/primary care doctor / Yes - Other hospital that referred this patient to this hospital / Yes - other (e.g. pharmacy) If ‘Yes’ to any of the above, describe their pathway from symptom onset to this hospital, including the reason for any inter-hospital transfer Free text (optional) Time from symptom onset to first assessment by the surgical team in this hospital *Eg If it is only 12hrs, please indicate 0 days, 12hrs… Days…….


More Definitions of Community health worker

Community health worker means an individual who meets quali-
Community health worker means an individual who meets qualification criteria adopted by the authority under ORS 414.665 and who:
Community health worker means a frontline public health
Community health worker means an individual certified under this chapter.
Community health worker means an indi- vidual who meets qualification criteria adopted by the authority under ORS 414.665 and who:
Community health worker or "CHW" means an individual who meets qualification criteria adopted by the authority under ORS 414.665 (Traditional health workers utilized by coordinated care organizations) ¶
Community health worker means an individual certified under this chapter to provide