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XTract One Enhances Security for Community Health Network

In collaboration with Indiana based partner CK2 Technologies, Xtract One was able to integrate SmartGateway into decades-old buildings without compromising the visitor experience.




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Catina Latham, PhD, named UChicago Medicine's new Senior Vice President for Community Health Transformation and Chief Equity Officer

Catina Latham, PhD, will succeed Brenda Battle as UChicago Medicine's Senior Vice President for Community Health Transformation and Chief Equity Officer




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Can Community Health Workers Make Hearing Health Care More Accessible for Older Adults?

Age-related hearing loss is common in the United States, with two-thirds of adults over age 70 experiencing a clinically significant hearing loss. However, that doesn’t mean that hearing loss should be something we learn to live with.




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Maine Community Health Center Revolutionizes Document Support with Scribe–X Medical Scribe Program

Hometown Health engages Scribe-X to reduce provider burnout and improve job satisfaction




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NOVA RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS FREE WORKOUTS, SCREENINGS, AND ACCESS TO MEDICAL AND WELLNESS PROVIDERS AT FREE COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR DEC 9TH

Complimentary coffee, snacks, totes, and more while supplies last




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Punjabi Californians Find a Lifeline Through Community Health Workers

Facing a health care system without sufficient translation services and a grueling economic landscape, Punjabi residents in Fresno, California, have created an organization to help meet their community’s unique needs.




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The Secret to Success at Community Health Centres - Transcript

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  • Radio/White Coat/ Black Art

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Community health centres apply for 2 addictions, housing hubs in Ottawa

The Pinecrest Queensway and Somerset West health centres are aiming to get a slice of $370 million of provincial funding to operate centres focused on addictions recovery and links to supportive housing.



  • News/Canada/Ottawa

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Partnering With Community Health Workers Controls High Blood Pressure

Patients with hypertension paired with a community health worker (CHW) through their primary care practice were more than three and a half times as likely




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Diabetes Core Update: COVID-19 – The Role of Community Health Workers as First Responders, May 2019

This special issue focuses on The Role of Community Health Workers as First Responders in the COVID-19 Outbreak. 

Recorded May 5, 2020.

This is a part of the American Diabetes Associations ongoing project providing resources for practicing clinicians on the care of Diabetes during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Today’s discussion is an audio version of a webinar recorded on May 5, 2020.

Presented by:

Betsy Rodriguez, BSN, MSN, DCES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Colleen Barbero, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Denise Octavia Smith, MBA, CHW, PN, SFC
National Association of Community Health Workers




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12 ways to make your community healthier

The environment in your neighborhood and surrounding community has a huge impact on your health and lifespan.



  • Fitness & Well-Being

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Importance Community Health Notice

Importance health notice for Grand Canyon South Rim community members. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/community-notice.htm




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Nearby nature—A cost-effective prescription for better community health?

A balanced diet and regular exercise are fundamental for good health, and a daily dose of nature may be equally important. Nearly 40 years of research has demonstrated that “metro nature”—nature found in urban environments, such as parks or tree-lined streets—provides positive and measurable health benefits and improves people’s quality of life.




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Self-Management Goal Setting in a Community Health Center: The Impact of Goal Attainment on Diabetes Outcomes

Daren R. Anderson
Apr 1, 2010; 23:97-105
Feature Articles




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Diabetes Self-Management in a Community Health Center: Improving Health Behaviors and Clinical Outcomes for Underserved Patients

Daren Anderson
Jan 1, 2008; 26:22-27
Bridges to Excellence




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Wintrust Financial Corporation Announces Precautionary Decision to Help Achieve Community Health Objectives By Temporarily Closing Selected Branches

To view more press releases, please visit http://www.snl.com/irweblinkx/news.aspx?iid=1024452.





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Wintrust Financial Corporation Announces Precautionary Decision to Help Achieve Community Health Objectives By Temporarily Closing Selected Branches

To view more press releases, please visit http://ir.wintrust.com/news.aspx?iid=1024452.




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Wintrust Financial Corporation Announces Further Actions To Help Achieve Community Health Objectives

To view more press releases, please visit http://ir.wintrust.com/news.aspx?iid=1024452.




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United States Joins Suit Against Community Health Systems Inc. and Three of Its Hospitals in New Mexico

The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit filed in the District of New Mexico against Community Health Systems Inc. (CHS) and three of its hospitals in New Mexico: Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell, Mimbres Memorial Hospital in Deming, and Alta Vista Regional Hospital in Las Vegas. The suit alleges that CHS and its three hospitals violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by knowingly causing to be presented to the United States false claims for federal matching Medicaid funds.



  • OPA Press Releases

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Community Health Systems Inc. to Pay $98.15 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

The Justice Department announced today that Community Health Systems Inc. (CHS), the nation’s largest operator of acute care hospitals, has agreed to pay $98.15 million to resolve multiple lawsuits alleging that the company knowingly billed government health care programs for inpatient services that should have been billed as outpatient or observation services. The settlement also resolves allegations that one of the company’s affiliated hospitals, Laredo Medical Center (LMC), improperly billed the Medicare program for certain inpatient procedures and for services rendered to patients referred in violation of the Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly known as the Stark Law. CHS is based in Franklin, Tennessee, and has 206 affiliated hospitals in 29 states



  • OPA Press Releases

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Hospitals as community hubs: Integrating community benefit spending, community health needs assessment, and community health improvement


Much public focus is being given to a broader role for hospitals in improving the health of their communities. This focus parallels a growing interest in addressing the social determinants of health as well as health care policy reforms designed to increase the efficiency and quality of care while improving health outcomes.

This interest in the community role of hospitals has drawn attention to the federal legal standards and requirements for nonprofit hospitals seeking federal tax exemption. Tax-exempt hospitals are required to provide community benefits. And while financial assistance to patients unable to pay for care is a basic requirement of tax-exemption, IRS guidelines define the concept of community benefit to include a range of community health improvement efforts.

At the same time, the IRS draws a distinction between community health improvement spending–which it automatically considers a community benefit–and certain “community-building” activities where additional information is required in order to be compliant with IRS rules. In addition, community benefit obligations are included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Specifically, the ACA requires nonprofit hospitals periodically to complete a community health needs assessment (CHNA), which means the hospital must conduct a review of health conditions in its community and develop a plan to address concerns. While these requirements are causing hospitals to look more closely at their role in the community, challenges remain. For instance, complex language in the rules can mean hospitals are unclear what activities and expenditures count as a “community benefit.” Hospitals must take additional steps in order to report community building as community health improvement.

These policies can discourage creative approaches. Moreover, transparency rules and competing hospital priorities can also weaken hospital-community partnerships. To encourage more effective partnerships in community investments by nonprofit hospitals:

  • The IRS needs to clarify the relationship between community spending and the requirements of the CHNA. 
  • There needs to be greater transparency in the implementation strategy phase of the CHNA. 
  • The IRS needs to broaden the definition of community health improvement to encourage innovation and upstream investment by hospitals.

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International knowledge transfer and development projects : a study of Finnish funded community health education project in Egypt / Heidi Tanhuva

Tanhuva, Heidi, author




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Assessment of the community healthcare providers' ability and willingness to respond to a bioterrorist attack in Florida




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Community health collection




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BMC’s Community Health Volunteers: In the frontline of Covid fight, but poorly paid, exposed to risk