Community Health Worker

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Accompany Health

πŸ’΅ $52k-$56k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

Join Accompany Health as a Community Health Worker to serve a critical role on our integrated care team, building trusting relationships with patients and empowering them to live healthy, dignified, independent lives.

Responsibilities

  • Building trusting, longitudinal relationships with our patients through in-home, virtual, and community-based visits
  • Collaborating with our clinicians by joining their medical visits and helping create a patient-centered care plan
  • Conducting an initial assessment for all patients to identify their goals and needs
  • Connecting patients to local resources and social services, for example helping them apply to SNAP benefits, accompanying them to a senior center, or researching community support groups
  • Supporting patients with chronic disease to take charge of their health, manage their medications, and stay out of the hospital
  • Helping patients navigate the healthcare system by accompanying them to doctor’s appointments, visiting them when they’re in the hospital, and helping coordinate their appointments
  • Providing health coaching to help patients with behavior change like exercise, smoking cessation, or healthy eating
  • Working with your team to build and keep up to date a resource directory of local and national resources (i.e., transportation, housing, financial, food, medication discounts, support groups)
  • Documenting all care and patient communication in our electronic medical record
  • Attend regular team huddles and case conferences
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