21.3037.01000
Sixty-seventh
Legislative Assembly HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3015
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Representatives Dobervich, P. Anderson, Buffalo, Mitskog, M. Nelson
Senators Hogan, Mathern
1 A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to consider studying the feasibility
2 and desirability of implementing a community health worker program, including
3 recommendations regarding a definition of a community health worker, the scope of work of a
4 community health worker, the infrastructure for training of community health workers, the
5 development of a community health worker certification process and related training curriculum
6 and continuing education requirements, a strategy for community health worker services being
7 Medicaid-reimbursed services, and private insurers' use of community health workers.
8 WHEREAS, community health workers serve as a connection between health care
9 professionals' care and patents' home-based implementation of that care; and
10 WHEREAS, utilization of community health workers is an evidence-based approach to
11 chronic disease prevention and management; and
12 WHEREAS, utilization of community health workers has been evidenced to reduce
13 nonemergent utilization of emergency and specialty services;
14 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF
15 NORTH DAKOTA, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN:
16 That the Legislative Management consider studying the feasibility and desirability of
17 implementing a community health worker program, including recommendations regarding a
18 definition of a community health worker, the scope of work of a community health worker, the
19 infrastructure for training of community health workers, the development of a community health
20 worker certification process and related training curriculum and continuing education
21 requirements, a strategy for community health worker services being Medicaid-reimbursed
22 services, and private insurers' use of community health workers.
23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Legislative Management report its findings and
24 recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement the recommendations, to
25 the Sixty-eighth Legislative Assembly.
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