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Understanding California’s community health worker/promotor workforce. CHW/P health care employers
Understanding California’s community health worker/promotor workforce. CHW/P health care employers
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- CHW/P health care employers
- Author(s):
- Bates, Timothy, (Of Healthforce Center at UCSF), author
Miller, Jacqueline, (Of Healthforce Center at UCSF), author
Chapman, Susan Anita, author - Contributor(s):
- California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Oakland, CA] : California Health Care Foundation, February 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Certification
Community Health Services
Community Health Workers -- statistics & numerical data
Health Care Surveys
Medical Staff
Medical Staff, Hospital
California - Genre(s):
- Statistics
Technical Report - Abstract:
- In California, one of the most culturally diverse states in the country, health care must bridge cultural and linguistic divides to serve all communities equitably. As trusted community members with lived experience, community health workers and promotores (CHW/Ps) have a long history of connecting those not well served by the traditional health care system with culturally competent health and social services. There is increasing recognition in California that CHW/Ps are a critical part of the health care workforce. In 2019, the California Future Health Workforce Commission recommended scaling the CHW/P workforce to broaden access to preventive and social support services as well as to team-based integrated primary and behavioral health care. In 2022 CHW/P services were added as a Medi-Cal preventive services benefit. Little is known about CHW/P employment across employer types in the health care sector in California, and little is known about why organizations choose to employ or not employ CHW/Ps. This report describes current hospital and community health center employer practices and prospective hospital and community health center employer opinions related to the employment of CHW/Ps in their organizations. CHW/P employers and prospective employers in hospitals and community clinics were asked to fill out a survey distributed by the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) and the California Primary Care Association (CPCA), respectively. The HASC survey was fielded from June to July 2021, and the CPCA survey was fielded from December 2021 to January 2022.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (23 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918645975606676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918645975606676