Community health workers can experience the same challenges as those they serve, Baltimore study shows

For more than 80 years, Bi-Rite, a family-owned grocery store on Bel Air Road, gave residents of Northeast Baltimore a place to buy affordable produce, send money and cash checks. But by the time a community health worker snapped a photo of the site where the store once stood for a report published Monday in the health policy journal, Health Affairs, all that remained of it was a towering red, white and blue sign.