Category: General

Colleagues,
Medicare enrollment is underway, remember to inform your clients/patients and families of the enrollment period to ensure Medicare recipients make changes to their plans or insurers accordingly. Open Enrollment is Oct. 15 – Dec. 7.

• https://www.medicare.gov/plan-compare/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwi7DtBRCLARIsAGCJWBo7cMgwz24qO5BjuaLjcSZ44BthnxVn4mRjelpMRTV-iMKfxcEC9pEaAh13EALw_wcB#/?lang=en

Categories: Profession Advocacy, Community Engaged and Community Advocacy

Profession Advocacy: Community Health Workers are recognized for their efforts in promoting the CHW Profession among other disciplines and community. Moreover, CHWs are acknowledged for their loyalty, advocacy and professional representation.

CHWs members recognized in October 2019 are:

Maria Isabel Vasquez

Rosa Isela Vasquez

Veronica Koppetsch

Vangie Ramirez

Magdalena Miranda

Vicente Escobedo

Rosalinda Tscheulin

Guadalupe Campos

Community Engaged: In this category, CHWs are recognized for their work, dedication and passion planning and executing events on behalf of SACHWA. CHWs’ presence and representation in the community is vital to the recognition and advancement of the profession and it is instrumental in fostering community relations and partnerships.

CHWs members recognized in October 2019 are:

Frank Morales

Robert Gomez

Ludivina Hernandez

Cynthia Parker

CHW Students recognized in October 2019: Students are recognized for going above and beyond class requirements. Students committed their time outside the classroom to engage in community service.

Students from Community Health Worker Program at Northwest Vista College were recognized during Association’s quarterly training.

https://www.alamo.edu/nvc/academics/programs/comp-sci-tech-and-business/community-health-worker/

Recognized Community Health Worker Students:

Crystal Alvarado

Josefina Perea

Colleagues,

By following the link below, you may have access to the presentations from United States Citizenship and Immigration Department discussed during the continuing education session.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FHigImduvrRkOA4KN4mMJZlowifswf5_?usp=sharing

Attention certified CHWs, don’t forget to RSVP with Dr. Fernando Martinez by Wednesday, October 16th in order to attend the upcoming Continuing Education scheduled for Saturday, October 19th. Please check your email.

September 14, 2019. A group of Community Health Worker students from the Community Health Worker Program at Northwest Vista College led a team of Certified Community Health Workers in a walk along the Guadalupe, Calavera and Cesar Chavez Streets in the Westside of San Antonio during the Dieciseis de Septiembre Parade. Our team joined the Annual Avenida Guadalupe Association’s Parade alongside other community organizations in celebration of Mexico’s Independence.

CHWs engage and participate in cultural and community events to honor our community. We live with, work and serve members from this community and therefore our presence and active participation is a way to remind community members of the mutual collaboration and shared goals we have in common.

A special thanks to our colleagues members of the organizing committee who helped organize our participation in this community event. Robert Gomez, Frank Morales, Ludivina Hernandez, Cynthia Parker, Isabel Vasquez, Dr. Fernando Martinez and Guadalupe Cornejo thank you for your time and leadership.

Attention DSHS Certified Community Health Workers

Metro Health has two openings for two full time community health workers:

The Asthma Community Health Worker will be doing case management for the SA BREATHE program; applications accepted up to September 19^th – https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sanantoniotx/jobs/2561910/asthma-community-health-worker?department[0]=SA%20Metro%20Health%20District&sort=PositionTitle%7CAscending&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

The Healthy Neighborhoods Community Health Worker will be working with primarily on the Westside of San Antonio on the strategies related to tobacco-free living, breastfeeding promotion, and referrals to community programs; applications accepted up to September 30^th – https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/sanantoniotx/jobs/2571175/community-health-worker?department[0]=SA%20Metro%20Health%20District&sort=PositionTitle%7CAscending&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

Colleagues,

The 14th Annual Texas health Literacy conference will take place on October 3-4, 2019.

This conference is one of the best conferences held in San Antonio that pertains to our field of Community Health.

If you are able to commit to attend both days, including the evening panel and keynote session, please send me your name, email address and phone number and I will submit the list to Liz to apply for the scholarship.

Please carefully review your calendar and personal commitments and determine if this is something you want to do. Out of respect and to be good stewards of the funds being dedicated to sponsor the registration fee, we ask you to examine your availability before putting your name on the list.

This is on first come, first served basis. Only 20 entries available.

To Apply, email me your information at mcornejo2@alamo.edu

For information about the conference and Health Collaborative, visit the links below.

Texas Health Literacy

The Health Collaborative

Please share with anyone you know that is 60+
Willie Cortez Senior Center is having an Open House on September 5th to showcase all their activities.

The positions will be focused on screening HIV patients for Hepatitis C and educating, providing care coordination, and linkage to treatment. These staff positions will be working with clinicians and administrators to implement Project TACKLE at our Family-Focused AIDS Clinical Treatment Services (FFACTS).

The Navigator position can be accessed here.

The Nurse Care Coordinator can be accessed here.

Any applicants that are interested in applying need to send resumes to Delana Gonzales at Delana.Gonzales@uhs-sa.com and Ms. Katelyn Buchanan – Katelyn.Buchanan@uhs-sa.com. Please note, we are looking to hire as soon as possible. We welcome any questions regarding the positions.

Position Description

Do you have compassion and a passion to help others? Transforming healthcare and millions of lives as a result starts with the values you embrace and the passion you bring to achieve your life’s best work.(sm) 

WellMed provides concierge – level medical care and service for seniors, delivered by physicians and clinic staff that understand and care about the patient’s health. WellMed’s proactive approach focuses on prevention and the complete coordination of care for patients. WellMed is now part of the Optum division under the greater UnitedHealth Group umbrella.

This position is grant funded and part of the WellMed Charitable Foundation. The goal of this job is to assist in protecting, maintaining and building trust between patients, their local community, and the clinical team by understanding patients’ needs and capacities; facilitating patients’ compliance with clinical treatments; supporting patients as they implement changes that improve their self-care; linking the patients to community based services to improve their living situation, and educating providers about the contextual social determinants of their patient’s health. To apply follow this link https://careers.unitedhealthgroup.com/data/jobs/healthcare-delivery/827190-community-health-worker-healthcare-wellmed-san-antonio-tx