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Winter Streamline: Strategies for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence During the Pandemic

Mar 30, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
IPV and COVID-19 Intimate partner violence is the physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse, according to the CDC. A recent…
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Planning, Partnerships, and Perseverance: Overcoming Challenges on the COVID-19 Frontlines

Feb 3, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In 2020, while COVID-19 outbreaks were already hitting farms further south, Maine's late harvest window provided clinicians and public health workers a longer lead time to prepare and advocate…
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750 COVID-19 Patients Later, A One-Year Milestone

Feb 2, 2021
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Dr. Laszlo Madaras We have now lived through a sad anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in the US, which was reported on January 20th, 2020. Just two weeks later, the first week of February…
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"You Saved Lives": Celebrating the Kugel and Zuroweste Award Winner

Dec 9, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In a year defined by health inequities and limited health care access, the push for health justice remains crucial to Migrant Clinicians Network’s work. MCN’s Kugel and Zuroweste Health Justice…
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World AIDS Day: A Physician’s Look Back at 40 Years of Patients

Dec 1, 2020
By: Laszlo Madaras
Mild-mannered in person, Dr. Jonathan Mann could be a passionate speaker. In 1989, at an AIDS Action Committee dinner in Boston, he said: ''In the last few years we have gained confidence that as…
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Caroline Johnson, Winner of MCN’s Inaugural Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award

Nov 30, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Ashley-Michelle Papon, Project Coordinator, Development and Outreach In a year where the news has often ranged from difficult to grim, it is particularly important to celebrate the positive…
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#HeroesOnTheFrontline: Finding Inspiration from Clinicians Around the World

Nov 11, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In hindsight, my transition to an advocate for health justice seemed somewhat predestined. I came of age during the latter stages of the AIDS epidemic, during a time when dial-up internet…
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Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award: Open for Nominations

Aug 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award recognizes a rising star clinician hard at work to achieve health justice, providing them with a one-time $1,000 award and national recognition through…
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Supporting Clinicians During Their Most Challenging Moments: Witness to Witness, by Dr. Laszlo Madaras

Jul 23, 2020
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH TS Eliot once wrote that April is the cruelest month, but I would put in a bid for July. While I have spent many happy summers on the shores of Maine and Cape Cod in…
Clinicians test a patient for COVID-19

Best Practices in Mobile Team Outreach

Jun 8, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Just west of Portland, Oregon, thousands of acres of orchards, vineyards, and berry bushes stretch out across fertile plains. Every June, these fields are closely tended and harvested by migrant and…
Giving Tuesday Now: Witness to Witness

Trauma, Mental Health, and COVID-19: Giving Tuesday Offers Support for Frontline Clinicians

May 5, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The last time I ever spoke to my friend Anna, she cried about resigning from her job. Educated at my own alma mater, eventually graduating with a degree in counseling, she had run the gamut of…
Health Centers on the Frontlines | HOPE Clinic Ramps Up Telehealth, Starts Rapid Testing

Health Centers on the Frontlines: HOPE Clinic Ramps Up Telehealth, Starts Rapid Testing

May 4, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In Houston, Texas, HOPE Clinic is living up to its name. The large urban community health center rapidly ramped up its telehealth services as the COVID-19 pandemic struck, and now almost 20 percent…
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Health Centers on the Frontlines: Mary's Center on Virtual Enabling Services, Internal Communication, and Finances during COVID-19

Apr 16, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
At Mary’s Center, a large Washington, DC and Maryland-based community health center with five clinical sites, two senior service centers, and 23 school-based mental health sites in partnership…
Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Take MCN’s 2020 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Apr 8, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
ICE raids. Public charge. Rhetoric around immigration. In the last three years, clinicians who have taken MCN’s annual poll have confirmed that forces outside of the clinic interrupt health care…
MCN's Jessica Candela working with Molly Jolliff on the webinar for providers of support for Camp Fire survivors

Camp Fire Response and Recovery: A Snapshot of Community Providers’ Perspectives

Feb 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN's Jessica Candela working with Molly Jolliff on a webinar for those who provide support or services to Camp Fire survivors. On November 19, 2019, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) held a free…
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Winter Streamline: Witness to Witness: Helping Health Care Supervisors Address Trauma, Moral Injury, and Burnout

Feb 4, 2020
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Clinicians are overwhelmed. But what exactly is fueling the emotional exhaustion? Clinician burnout, says Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, is just part of the problem, particularly in health centers motivated…
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria.

From Streamline: How Three Communities in Puerto Rico Mobilized to Prepare for the Next Big Disaster

Nov 21, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
CSM went door-to-door checking on their patients after Hurricane Maria. Two years ago, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, dismantling basic infrastructure. Most of the island was left…
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The Puerto Rico Public Health Trust and Migrant Clinicians Network announce partnership with Puerto Rico Community Health Centers for emergency preparedness

Oct 23, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
With the goal to build capacity among community health centers in Puerto Rico to use a community mobilization approach in emergency preparedness, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research…
MCN's Dr. Laszlo Madaras with Mary Englerth

Mary Englerth, PA, Clinical Hero in Pennsylvania, Retires

Oct 22, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
After over three decades of service of farmworkers in rural Pennsylvania, Mary Englerth, PA, is retiring. “Hermana Mary,” as many know her in the farmworker camps, is a Maryknoll Missioner and,…
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In the Field: Binational Health Week Kickoff with Ventanilla de Salud, Austin

Oct 17, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Luis Edwardo Retta, Health Network AssociateOctober is a month for health awareness and the Ventanilla de Salud likes to begin the month with it its annual Binational Health Week Kickoff, which…
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Candace Kugel: A Life Serving Immigrant Women and Children

Oct 2, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Over the course of her decades of care for the underserved, Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS, has delivered hundreds of babies, from Pennsylvania to Honduras, trained hundreds of clinicians to…
Kevin Alfaro-Martinez and Eva Galvez stand in front of health center.

Diabetes Clinical Teams: Q&A with Kevin Alfaro-Martinez, Eva Galvez, MD, and Sarah Deines, PharmD, from Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center

Jun 25, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Kevin Alfaro-Martinez and Eva Galvez stand in front of health center. Kevin Alfaro-Martinez is a Primary Care Community Outreach Worker at Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, a community…
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Diabetes, Disasters, Late Night Outreach: The Life of a Migrant & Neighborhood Health Nurse in North Carolina

Jun 5, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“It’s very, very busy this time a year.” That’s the update from Gena Byrd, RN, a nurse with Greene County Health Care, a community health center in North Carolina. One of the true migrant health…
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Ghettoization of the Migrant Population: Perspective from Dr. John Ghertner

Jun 4, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
John Ghertner, MD, has been living and working as a physician for the migrant community in the Finger Lakes region of New York State since around 1980. His integration into the community -- he says…
Stagnant Patient Records Are Public Health Problem

Medscape Perspective: Stagnant Patient Records Are Public Health Problem

May 16, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Mobile patients -- whether a professional who gets sick at an out-of-town conference or a farmworker who moves every three weeks for work -- often find that health records aren’t available when…
Complicated Conversation on Cost

Complicated Conversations on Cost: New MCN Research Article

May 9, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
How many clinicians hold a conversation with patients around the potential costs of this visit’s care? For low-income patients, who have little to no savings, the fear of paying for a health…