Background Driscoll Health Plan (DHP), a non-profit community-based health insurance plan serving South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley introduced the Nurture Program in collaboration with Factor Health Labs in
The federal Medicaid program has long recognized the critical role of transportation to improving access to healthcare through the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) benefit. The NEMT benefit today, which is
The Texas Pathways Community HUB (PCH) pilot program is an organized pay-for-performance focused network of community-based organizations that hire and train community health workers (CHWs) to conduct outreach and assessment,
In 2023, the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF), the Dell Foundation, Methodist Healthcare Ministries (MHM), and St. David’s Foundation partnered with five Medicaid MCOs to establish discussion group sessions to ensure
The lack of timely access to primary care among the un- and under-insured population leads to greater health care debt and poorer health outcomes compared to those individuals with adequate
To support the NMDOH Subcommittee’s forthcoming recommendations to the 89th Legislature, the Texas Consortium for the Non-Medical Drivers of Health commissioned the Center for Health Care Strategies to develop this
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are essential members of public health and health care workforces. To better understand the current landscape of the CHW workforce and to develop strategies that best
Growing evidence suggests the importance of economic stability, physical environment, education, food, and social context in determining one’s health before the health system is able to intervene (Nichols & Taylor,