Many community health worker (CHW) models address those already in healthcare or receiving care in an emergency situation. As a consequence, these services only scratch the surface in addressing the underserved and under utilizers of healthcare. The following summarizes the AH approach:
The Aloha Health community health worker (CHW) and community leader (CL) model is a unique and innovative strategy able to penetrate resident’s environments to address the healthcare needs of those in most in need, most underserved, and most under-utilizing of healthcare
The Aloha Health model utilizes many components of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Center for Community Health Workers and other best practice models. Additionally the Aloha Health model engages community leaders (CL) that live, work, play, are trusted, and respected by neighborhood residents and groups. These CLs are able to assist in directing residents to CHWs and other appropriate care. Therefore the Aloha Health CHW/CL model intervenes well before a health crisis and improves coordinated care and compliance to achieve better outcomes. In addition, program evaluation completed to date indicates that the participating health care organizations realize a $2 ROI for every $1 investing in an Aloha Health Initiative which is motivating these and other institutions to self-fund efforts to improve population health.
A Concluding Word... Except for the Aloha Health Initiative, there is no group in the City of Richmond intervening so directly on a daily basis in the “prison without walls” that thousands of the underserved and under-utilizers of healthcare must live in. Aloha Health founders and the leaders with whom they work carry out health education, fitness, nutrition, registration/intake, and care coordination programs at, among others, Creighton Court, the Fairfield Boys and Girls Clubs, Fairfield Court, Peter Paul Development Center, Mosby Court, and the Church Hill Academy. On a weekly basis the Aloha Health team delivers food from VCU Rampantry to public housing communities as well as giving countless rides to residents to doctor's appointments, pharmacies, grocery store etc. as well as serving as character witnesses for family members so they can avoid being incarcerated or are seeking release from prison. Present community programs, for the most part, are not tailored for or reach the residents Aloha Health efforts are benefitting. Ask officials who create and manage health programs the last time they walked through the public housing communities. The Aloha Health innovative strategy does not compete with any other organization because the latter do not do what it does.
We will never significantly improve our third world statistics without programs like Aloha Health.
The Aloha Health community health worker (CHW) and community leader (CL) model is a unique and innovative strategy able to penetrate resident’s environments to address the healthcare needs of those in most in need, most underserved, and most under-utilizing of healthcare
The Aloha Health model utilizes many components of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Center for Community Health Workers and other best practice models. Additionally the Aloha Health model engages community leaders (CL) that live, work, play, are trusted, and respected by neighborhood residents and groups. These CLs are able to assist in directing residents to CHWs and other appropriate care. Therefore the Aloha Health CHW/CL model intervenes well before a health crisis and improves coordinated care and compliance to achieve better outcomes. In addition, program evaluation completed to date indicates that the participating health care organizations realize a $2 ROI for every $1 investing in an Aloha Health Initiative which is motivating these and other institutions to self-fund efforts to improve population health.
A Concluding Word... Except for the Aloha Health Initiative, there is no group in the City of Richmond intervening so directly on a daily basis in the “prison without walls” that thousands of the underserved and under-utilizers of healthcare must live in. Aloha Health founders and the leaders with whom they work carry out health education, fitness, nutrition, registration/intake, and care coordination programs at, among others, Creighton Court, the Fairfield Boys and Girls Clubs, Fairfield Court, Peter Paul Development Center, Mosby Court, and the Church Hill Academy. On a weekly basis the Aloha Health team delivers food from VCU Rampantry to public housing communities as well as giving countless rides to residents to doctor's appointments, pharmacies, grocery store etc. as well as serving as character witnesses for family members so they can avoid being incarcerated or are seeking release from prison. Present community programs, for the most part, are not tailored for or reach the residents Aloha Health efforts are benefitting. Ask officials who create and manage health programs the last time they walked through the public housing communities. The Aloha Health innovative strategy does not compete with any other organization because the latter do not do what it does.
We will never significantly improve our third world statistics without programs like Aloha Health.
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