Community Health Workers in Cochise County
Chiricahua’s community health work teams extend care beyond clinic walls, helping patients connect to medical, dental, and behavioral health services while addressing barriers such as distance, access, and resources. Through mobile clinics and outreach programs, Chiricahua serves communities across more than 6,200 square miles of rural borderland.
Community Health Initiatives
Migrant & Seasonal Farmworker Program
Since 1996, Chiricahua has proudly served farmworkers as a Federally Qualified Health Center. Our trained community health workers (promotoras) use a grassroots approach to educate, support, and provide basic health services right in the communities we serve. Many express their gratitude with heartfelt words like, “Thank you for caring about us.”
Health Fair Participation
You’ll often see our Community Health Workers at local health fairs offering free blood pressure checks, blood sugar screenings, and cholesterol readings. They’re also ready to provide first aid support at public events whenever needed.
meeting patients where they are
Imagine a house, on the top of a mountain, in the middle of the Arizona desert. Now imagine being a community health worker, knowing that there’s a patient in that house, in desperate need of medical care. What would you do? Well, for a Chiricahua community health worker, there was only one solution – climb up the mountain. He found an 84-year-old patient who was homebound. Equipped with a blood pressure cuff, an oxygen tank, and a laptop he contacted her medical provider, translated and explained the recommendations, and answered her questions. And then he went back down the mountain to see his next patient. He reflected that an important part of his job was to meet patients where they are (both literally and figuratively).
