{"id":5449,"date":"2023-05-16T14:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2023-05-17T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:50:23","slug":"chw-letter-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/chw-letter-23\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Organizations Sign-on to Comments Urging KDHE to Advance Policy That Sustains Community Health Workers in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Community Health Workers are a vital part of Kansas health care. Recently, 20 Kansas organizations joined the Health Fund in signing onto a comment letter to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to show their support of this profession. In partnership with these organizations, we delivered a letter to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) asking for their continued support of CHWs in Kansas through an improved reimbursement strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter, found <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHW-2023-sign-on-letter.pdf\">here<\/a>, asks that KDHE strengthen their approach to CHW reimbursement strategy by:<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\" start=\"1\">\n<li>Allowing flexibility in who can supervise a CHW and where a CHW can be employed to be reimbursed, specifically by community-based organizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensuring there is adequate reimbursement for the services provided by CHWs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Committing to ongoing partnership with stakeholders to ensure the policy is implemented.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>By ensuring the sustainability of CHWs in Kansas, our kids can thrive, our communities will benefit and the future of health care in Kansas will be a little brighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in learning more about what CHWs do and how you can support them, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/kansas-community-health-workers\/\">Kansas CHWs<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read the full letter <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHW-2023-sign-on-letter.pdf\">here<\/a> and see the full list of partners who joined us in supporting CHWs in Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the sign-on letter, the Health Fund also submitted in-depth comments regarding the proposed CHW payment policy, which you can read <a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Health-Fund-CHW-Services-Comments.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to our partners who join us in this endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Health Workers are a vital part of Kansas health care. Recently, 20 Kansas organizations joined the Health Fund in signing onto a comment letter to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to show their support of this profession. In partnership with these organizations, we delivered a letter to the Kansas Department of Health &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5529,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}