Penn Center for community health workers: Step-by-step approach to sustain an evidence-based community health worker intervention at an academic medical center

A.U. Morgan, D.T. Grande, T. Carter, J.A. Long and S. Kangovi

American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 11, 1958-1960

Abstract: Community-engaged researchers who work with low-income communities can be reliant on grant funding. We use the illustrative case of the Penn Center for Community Health Workers (PCCHW) to describe a step-by-step framework for achieving financial sustainability for community-engaged research interventions. PCCHW began as a small grant-funded research project but followed an 8-step framework to engage both low-income patients and funders, determine outcomes, and calculate return on investment. PCCHW is now fully funded by Penn Medicine and delivers the Individualized Management for Patient-Centered Targets (IMPaCT) community health worker intervention to 2000 patients annually.

Keywords: funding; health auxiliary; human; investment; lowest income group; major clinical study; medicine; scientist; chronic disease; economics; financial management; health auxiliary; health care delivery; organization and management; patient satisfaction; poverty; primary prevention; program evaluation; university hospital, Academic Medical Centers; Chronic Disease; Community Health Workers; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Patient Satisfaction; Poverty; Primary Prevention; Program Evaluation; Research Support as Topic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303366

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