BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c34b7fbbba515a962fbecd25783b2188120 CATEGORIES:Webinar SUMMARY:Community Health Workers serving as Pandemic Health Workers DESCRIPTION:
NEW! June 4, 2020 @ 8pm CT - Community He alth Workers serving as Pandemic Health Workers
Learn ab
out how Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU) developed a C
ommunity Health Worker Program 5 years ago and helped to transform that pro
gram into a Pandemic Health Worker Program to assist residents of the south
ern 65 Illinois counties as they face the Covid-19 pandemic.
D
r. Tracey Smith, Executive Director, SIU Medicine’s Office of Community Ini
tiatives and Complex Care, created the community health worker model that h
elped shape the Pandemic Health Worker program launched in April with the I
llinois Department of Public Health and OSF of Peoria. Janet Albers, MD, ch
air, SIU Department of Family and Community Medicine, joins the conversatio
n.
The Pandemic Health Workers program has the following early
statistics: