On April 8, 2024, Kelsey Salazar and Sehrish Rashid delivered a presentation titled Beyond (SDOH) Screening: Strategies to Incorporate Health Literacy & Trauma Informed Principles at the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers (PACHC) 2024 Integration...
On October 24th, our Senior Director of Community Impact, Susan Cosgrove, said farewell to HCIF. Susan joined HCIF ten years ago, and has since led the expansion of HCIF’s Population Health portfolio and team with her unwavering support, compassion and guidance. Susan...
For over a decade, PAHLC has supported regional and statewide health literacy initiatives through a Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Pennsylvania Hospital has been a clinical partner in this work since its...
Hillary Holes, CHES, Director, Health Equity at Healthcare Council of Western Pennsylvania (HCWP), and PAHLC team member attended the 2022 Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit in early April. We asked Hillary to share some of the most impactful moments of her conference...
October is Health Literacy Month! It is the perfect time to reflect on the role that health communication plays in promoting healthy behaviors. Not communicating well can lead to high use of crisis care, lesser use of preventive care, and overall poorer health....
Dr. Rickie Brawer has been intimately involved with the founding, development, and leadership of the Pennsylvania Health Literacy Coalition (PAHLC) since our inception in 2010. She is one of the original authors of the initial grant application to establish a regional...