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MNC Melissa Bailey

Children in the Fields | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 18, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Children don’t belong on tobacco fields. Do you agree? Six years ago, Melissa Bailey discovered that many young children in her community are exposed to nicotine, pesticides, and extreme heat…
MNC Marie-Jose Francois

Balance Between Clinical and Non-clinical Settings | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 17, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It comes as no surprise that one of our 30 Clinicians Making a Difference, Marie-Jose Francois, is based in Florida. After all, the Sunshine State hosts tens of thousands of migratory and seasonal…
MNC Eva Galvez

Working with Seasonal Farmworkers in Oregon | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 16, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week, the Spring issue of Streamline was published. Arriving in the mailboxes of thousands of subscribers was the image of Eva Galvez, MD, attending to a young patient in her exam room at…
MNC Sue Hagie

Up to the Challenges | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 15, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Earlier this week, MCN’s Specialist on Child and Migration Health and Bioethics, Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH, MA, visited Choptank Health Center in Maryland, where she and a team were conducting an…
MCN Five on Friday

Five on Friday | May 15, 2015

May 15, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Although the blog has been primarily dedicated to our 30 Days/30 Clinicians work, we want to make sure you get your Five on Friday fix. We’ve got lots to share this week. Here are the top five reads…
MNC Vonnie Brown

Bringing Health Justice by Reframing Beliefs | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 14, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
For agricultural workers, the end of May is the beginning -- crops are in the ground, and the busy growing season is ahead. For university students, however, May is an ending; it’s a time to…
MNC Eileen Eager

Health Justice as Charity | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 13, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This year, MCN celebrates its 30th anniversary, but just two years ago, our friends at Seton Center had their own 30th year in serving their migrant community in Princess Anne, Maryland. Sister…
MCN’s Rapid Clinical Assessment Tool

MCN’s Rapid Clinical Assessment Tool Featured in Newly Published Article

May 12, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
When a young Latino patient enters your exam room at your rural clinic, do you initiate a conversation on workplace safety? Most clinicians would likely answer, ‘no’, as is noted in a new Journal of…
MNC Charita Olabiyi

Everybody Smiles in the Same Language | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 12, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This Friday is the meeting of the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Advisory Council, organized by Westside Family Healthcare in Delaware. The council serves as a “common ground for direct service…
MNC Erika Peterson

Building Trust | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 11, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Two weeks ago, Health Network Manager Ricardo Garay left MCN’s Austin, Texas headquarters and headed to Eastern Shore Rural Health Systems, Inc., in Virginia, to present to clinicians on the ‘why…
MNC Jesus Reyna

Compassionate Care Across the World | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 10, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Our profile of LT Jesus Reyna, RN, for 30 Clinicians Making a Difference is a bit different than the others. When he was selected for the honor, Lieutenant Reyna was in West Africa as a…
MNC Megan Danielson

Delivering New Life and Hopeful Beginnings | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 9, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Tuesday was the annual International Day of the Midwife -- but this year seems... different, because midwifery seems more prominent in media than ever. Just last month, the royal couple delivered…

Five on Friday | May 8, 2015

May 8, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Friday! We are really enjoying our daily blog posts highlighting our honored clinicians each day for 30 Clinicians Making a Difference, but the migrant health world certainly hasn’t stopped for…
MNC Hilton Perez

A Bridge Between Two Worlds | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 8, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
On the north end of the Central Valley lies the mid-size college town of Chico, which is famous for its incredibly rich soils and for the acres and acres of almonds, walnuts, fruit trees, and…
MNC Julio Garay

Tuberculosis in El Salvador | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 7, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Although Migrant Clinicians Network works closely with clinicians within the US, much of our work at Health Network is done with our international counterparts. Health Network, MCN’s bridge case…
MNC John McFarland

Dental Health | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 6, 2015
By: Aníbal Yariel López Correa
Under that low-key and smiling exterior is a man driven by a single desire to change access to dental care for everyone. In the almost 30 years that I have known John McFarland, he has never…
MNC Jose Rodriguez

More than Teeth | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 5, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Today is the opening day of the National Farmworkers Health Conference in El Paso, Texas. Migrant Clinicians Network will be celebrating its 30th anniversary through an informational display in the…
MNC Jose Rodriguez

Providing Care in Rural Puerto Rico | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 4, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
One month ago, a family of four from Delaware was rushed to the hospital in the US Virgin Islands, after experiencing exposure to methyl bromide, a banned fumigant. The family’s two teenage sons…
MNC Elizabeth Rios

Diabetes Care and Beyond | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 3, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Caring for a newborn, not to mention three other children, dedicating her work life to her local community as a migrant clinician, all while working toward a PhD in nursing? Just a day in the life…
MNC Emily Sinnwell

Summers in Iowa | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 2, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
For Emily Sinnwell, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, her busiest time of year is just around the corner. Sinnwell works with migrant and seasonal agricultural workers for Proteus, in Iowa, and the seed corn is…
MCN May 1

Five on Friday | May 1, 2015

May 1, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy May Day! We at Migrant Clinicians Network provide clinicians with the tools and information to assure that all workers, including migrant workers, can get access to health care. We also engage…
MCN Adrian Billings

Seeing Patients Cradle to Grave on the U.S. Mexico Border | 30 Days, 30 Clinicians

May 1, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Adrian Billings, MD, has spent most of his career along the US/Mexico border near sleepy Presidio, Texas -- a land of vast desert claiming itself “the real frontier” on the city’s welcome sign.…
Health Network

Updating Statistics on TB Patients: Q&A with Dr. Ed Zuroweste

Apr 30, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week, MCN updated Health Network statistics with its newly-crunched data on tuberculosis patients whose cases were managed by Health Network in 2013. MCN’s Health Network is an innovative…
MCN

Workers' Memorial Day

Apr 28, 2015
By: Amy Liebman
An estimated 54,000 workers died last year as a result of work-related injuries and illness. That figure, released this week for Workers’ Memorial Day by the National Council for Occupational Safety…
MCN BOD

Five on Friday | April 24, 2015

Apr 24, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate the weekend with the top five items from MCN staff, on the many happenings in migrant health and beyond. Ricardo, Health Network Manager, sent us another awesome map…
MCN Jillian Juliana at Salud Para La Gente

In the Fields: Learning about Barriers to Occupational Health in Primary Care

Apr 23, 2015
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week, Juliana Simmons, MSPH, MCN’s Environmental and Occupational Health Program Manager, met up on the foggy central California coast with Jillian Hopewell, MPA, MA, MCN’s Director of Education…