Join us for a candid conversation with three healthcare leaders from the Camden Coalition, Providence, and CBCS as they explore the realities facing women across the healthcare workforce—from persistent double standards and leadership disparities to the invisible weight of caregiving. With nearly 78% of healthcare roles held by women, this episode dives into the systemic challenges and personal trade-offs that shape women's healthcare careers – and how organizations can better support women t...

In this month’s episode, we dive into the increasingly important topic of Medical Respite—a critical service that provides short-term medical care for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover on the streets, but not sick enough to stay in a hospital. Dr. Enguidanos is joined by Jillian Olmsted and Dr. Jeff McNally from The INN Between, Utah’s first and only medical respite and end-of-life care facility for individuals experiencing homelessness. Speakers share the f...

Join us this month as Dr. Enrique Enguidanos chats with John Whigham about his experience as a community health worker—and how his history of homelessness, food insecurity, and addiction have allowed him to find both empathy and empowerment in his street medicine work today. JOHN WHIGHAM: John Whigham is a dedicated Community Health Worker (CHW) specializing in street medicine at AHN's Center for Inclusion Health. John has faced many of the same challenges as the populations he serves, incl...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Director of Operations at CBCS, Asia Brown, shares her journey and curiosity about people and how it set her on a path to non-fiction writing and then drove her into social work, and eventually to the helping side of getting to know people. Asia Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a background in case management an...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Crystal Salazar shares her journey starting as a young, single mother and arriving full circle as a navigator working in New Mexico as a role model, mentor, and support for new parents.

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, Jessica Placencia shares the catalyst for her career change from EMS services to care navigation and the role of small misses in creating barriers to big change.

One year following the launch of the innovative INSPIRE program, Dr. Enrique Enguidanos interviews those involved in its work on lessons learned in this journey to advance community partnerships in healthcare throughout the country. INSPIRE’s goal is to create tools, resources and learning/coaching models that will meet the varied needs of healthcare stakeholders and people with lived experience to advance meaningful partnership in their communities to deliver better quality healthcare.

Join us for this special episode of Caring as Communities! Dr. Enrique Enguidanos joins with Asia Brown, CBCS, and Chris Douglas, FindHelp.org, to discuss key challenges facing individuals in accessing critical resources and identify patient-centric solutions that improve access and maintain individual dignity. BONUS CONTENT: This episode includes key testimonials from patients with complex health needs about resource navigation and successful solutions!

Nutrition has vast effects on individual and population health—impacting obesity rates, chronic conditions, and quality of life. Yet despite its proven, wide-reaching effects, nutrition remains largely overlooked as a social determinant of health. Dr. Livia Santiago-Rosado, MD, Commissioner of the Dutchess County (NY) Department of Behavioral and Community Health, joins Dr. Enrique Enguidanos to discuss this important topic and how communities can work together to make small tweaks and big im...

Join Caring as Communities on this mini-series interviewing the frontline community health navigators supporting our nation's most vulnerable patients. In this episode, community health worker in Virginia, Gerron, shares his journey coming from a background of crime and finding purpose in helping others escape similar life patterns by addressing the environments in which they live through love and compassion.