REACH Su Comunidad was a program that empowered Community Health Workers, or promotores, to address health disparities experienced by Hispanic/Latino communities. Southwest Center for Health Innovation (CHI) and our partners provided training and technical assistance to ten communities across five states as their community health workers expanded their roles beyond […]
UPDATE NM promotes safe prescribing practices Understanding Provider Demands and Advancing Timely Evidence in New Mexico (UPDATE NM) is an academic detailing service which distills and disseminates evidence-based information and recommendations so healthcare providers can better serve their patients. UPDATE NM is free of charge to healthcare providers (funding is […]
The Hidalgo County Food Coalition and the Southwest New Mexico Food Policy Council regard the availability of affordable and healthy food as a social justice issue. The Center for Health Innovation (CHI) helped to establish these two food policy councils at the local (county) and regional (four counties) levels, and […]
Hidalgo County Health Council, facilitated by the Center for Health Innovation (CHI) staff, is the leading organization for health planning at the county level. CHI staff coordinates Health Council efforts and activities. It engages community members to review health related data and set health priorities. Contact Joseph Hill at (575) […]
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. EvidenceNOW – Advancing Heart Health in Primary Care – will help primary care practices in both urban and rural communities use the latest evidence to encourage Better Care, Smarter Spending, and Healthier People. Southwest […]
View this publication → This article examines the experience of a frontier-based community health center when it utilized the Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) for assessing social determinants of health with a local health consortium. Community members (N = 357) rated safety, jobs, housing, and education […]
View this publication → Despite decades of policy efforts to stabilize rural health systems through a range of policies and funding programs, accelerating rural hospital closures combined with rapid changes in private and public payment strategies have created widespread concern that these solutions are inadequate for addressing current rural health […]
View this publication → We describe the impact of community health workers (CHWs) providing community-based support services to enrollees who are high consumers of health resources in a Medicaid managed care system. We conducted a retrospective study on a sample of 448 enrollees who were assigned to field-based CHWs in […]
View this publication → The Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model offers academic health centers methodologies for community engagement that can address the social determinants of disease. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center developed Health Extension Rural Offices (HEROs) as a vehicle for its model of health extension. Health […]
View this publication → A seamless system of social, behavioral, and medical services for the uninsured was created to address the social determinants of disease, reduce health disparities, and foster local economic development in 2 inner-city neighborhoods and 2 rural counties in New Mexico. We helped urban and rural communities […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.