How Hospitals Save with Community Heath Workers
- Assist in identifying services
- Identify medical homes for patients
- Improve patient adherence to treatment
- Improve the patient and provider care relationship
- Provide screening and prevention services
- Work closely with the health care team
- Identify at-risk behaviors
- Provide case management aide skills
- Provide informal counseling
- Identify linguistic and cultural gaps in communication
- Provide care coordination
- Reduce health disparities
- Provide outreach methods and strategies
- Provide appropriate cultural communication
- Provide follow-up / advocacy in communities
- Provide community capacity building
- Provide health education #101 – Basic Health Education
- Create positive patients
- Extend patient care beyond the clinical visit by making home visits.
- Provide appropriate cultural communication
- Provide follow-up / advocacy in communities
- Provide community capacity building
- Provide health education #101 – Basic Health Education
- Create positive patients
- Extend patient care beyond the clinical visit by making home visits.

Financial Incentives
Hospitals that use Community Health Workers are able to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. Below are examples of how major hospitals throughout the country are using Community Health Workers to improve the care they provide while improving their bottom line.
Click the name of each hospital to see the target population, CHW intervention, and outcome data.
Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago
Bronx Lebanon Hospital, NY; a patient-centered medical home
Tri-County Rural Health Network Community Connector Program, Arkansas
Community Health Worker Outreach Program, Baltimore, MD
Lakewood Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Health System, Ohio
Denver Health, Colorado
The King County Asthma Program, Seattle, Washington
The Langdale Company, Valdosta, GA

Hundreds of titles exist for Community Health Workers. Some of the common ones are listed below. Specialty areas have more specific titles.
Coach
Community Advocate
Community Care Coordinator
Community Engagement Specialist
Community Health Advisor
Community Health Advocate
Community Health Aide
Community Health Educator
Community Health Promoter
Community Health Representative
Community Health Worker
Community Organizer
Community Worker
Companero en Salud
Family Health Advocate
Health Worker
Helper / Supporter
Lay Health Advisor
Lay Health Educator
Outreach Specialist
Outreach Worker
Parent Educator
Parent Support Partner
Patient Advocate
Patient Educator
Patient Navigator
Peer Counselor
Peer Health Advisory
Peer Leader
Peer Support Specialist
Peer / Teen Educator
Promotor(a) de Salud
Public Health Aide
Researcher