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SIU School of Medicine highlights community health worker program and outcomes; receives favorable accreditation notice
Summary
The School of Medicine reported expanded use of community health workers with measurable outcomes in access, insurance coverage, emergency‑room use and social measures; the medical school also received a six‑year accreditation decision with no modifiers, the dean said.
The SIU School of Medicine used its July 10 trustees presentation to detail a decade‑long community health worker (CHW) program and to report outcomes from hot‑spotting and neighborhood engagement initiatives that school leaders said reduced emergency usage, increased primary care and improved social determinants of health.
Dean Cruz and program leads described CHW activities tied to the Enos Park access program and other hot‑spotting initiatives. The presentation summarized internal analyses showing improvements across a range of measures for patients engaged by CHWs: higher primary care visit rates, increased insurance…
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