Community Health Workers

Tracking data, ensuring accuracy: CHW Diane Hawkins
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Tracking data, ensuring accuracy: CHW Diane Hawkins

Diane Hawkins, Community Health Worker for Healthcare Access Now, has a natural flair for numbers. Before becoming certified as a CHW, she was “working in an accounting office, processing the same data every month.” She was good at her job, but it was no longer fulfilling: “It got so monotonous. I wanted to work with…

Health Care Access Now is growing and expanding
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Health Care Access Now is growing and expanding

In order to have greater impact on the health of our clients HCAN is expanding its staff. We are pleased to introduce two new talented members:   Tiffany Sowell, Certified Community Health Worker Tiffany is a Certified Community Health Worker who joined the HCAN staff in December 2019. She primarily works with clients in Butler…

Not here to judge, here to help: CHW Lynniece Scurry
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Not here to judge, here to help: CHW Lynniece Scurry

Lynniece D. Scurry, Certified Community Health Worker for Healthcare Access Now, tells a compelling story of one community member who benefited from the work she does: A pregnant woman with two children had just arrived from out of state. She was supposed to have been staying with a friend, but they weren’t getting along.  “She…

Seeing the breakthrough with CHW Giacoma Telich
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Seeing the breakthrough with CHW Giacoma Telich

Giacoma Telich, Certified Community Health Worker at HCAN, refers to herself as a “big encourager.” One element of her job that she finds most satisfying is connecting with new people and seeing their breakthroughs. “I can walk into a situation where people have a wall up, but by the end of the day, we’re hugging,”…

HCAN celebrates Community Health Worker Certification Program grads
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HCAN celebrates Community Health Worker Certification Program grads

Sometimes you have an experience in life that changes everything. Something touches you and your perspective shifts forever. Even if we anticipate that an experience will be meaningful we never really know how it will affect us. Who will we be at the end of it all? Anyone who has had a positive shift in…

TriHealth’s Community Health Workers never judge a book by its cover
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TriHealth’s Community Health Workers never judge a book by its cover

Janet Visco, Practice Manager of the OB-GYN Center at TriHealth, oversees Community Health Workers, nurse case managers, and some social workers affiliated with outpatients.  “It’s a busy women’s center, with over 1,000 deliveries last year,” she says. “We provide gynecological services as well. The majority of those we serve are African American and/or insured by…