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Health Centers on the Frontlines

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…
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Knowledge is Power: Reaching Farmworkers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with Environmental Health Education

Dec 5, 2019
By: Jordana Oman
Farmworker parents after participating in an environmental health and safety talk with a community health worker.By Kate Kruse, Project Coordinator, Migrant Clinicians NetworkPrior to living and…
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MCN Staff Celebrates National Health Center Week

Aug 8, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
“America’s Health Centers: Rooted in Communities.” The theme of this year’s National Health Center Week aptly recognizes and celebrates the ways in which health centers are connected to the…
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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…
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Patients' Health Goals in Montana, with Be Prepared to Be Engaged

May 1, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Earlier this year, Vicki Thuesen, NP, learned about a simple new strategy to better patient outcomes during a Migrant Clinicians Network and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium learning…
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2019 Clinician Poll: Help us better serve and connect health centers serving immigrants and other underserved populations.

Apr 18, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
For the last two years, we have asked clinicians around the country if they had seen any changes in their migrant and immigrant patients’ perspectives on health access. Your responses have helped us…
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In the Field: Puerto Rico Communities Build On Lessons Learned from Maria

Mar 13, 2019
By: Caitlin A. Fish J.D.
Last week, Puerto Rico, under severe financial constraints, began cutting food stamp benefits for over a million people. The demand for food stamps went up significantly after Hurricane Maria, which…
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Resilience: Puerto Rico Conference Shows Post-Maria Shift in Emergency Preparedness Leadership

Mar 7, 2019
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
By Claire Hutkins Seda, Staff Writer and Editor The term resilience implies that after a trauma the original condition is regained. After 2017’s Hurricanes Irma and Maria inflicted mass trauma on…
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A Hotel Housekeeper, A Needle Stick, A Hepatitis C Diagnosis: Case Study from the Clinician Consultation Center

Feb 7, 2019
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Carolyn Chu, MD, MSc, Clinical Director of the Clinician Consultation Center A provider called the PEPline to discuss baseline testing results regarding a 58-year-old woman who works in…
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Puerto Rico: Strengthening Relationships, Building Community to Prepare for the Next Disaster

Dec 11, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“ the importance of including the needs of the community and the importance of helping the community to build their own ." -Participant in Mobilizing Communities in Puerto Rico to Meet the…
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New Study: Oral Health is One of Mobile Agricultural Workers’ “Greatest Unmet Health Needs”

Nov 21, 2018
By: Elaine Penn
By Ileana Maria Ponce-Gonzalez, MD, MPCH, CNC, Executive Director, Community Health Worker Coalition for Migrants and Refugees Oral health is one of the greatest unmet health needs of mobile…
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MCN and Ventanilla de Salud Celebrate Binational Health Week

Oct 2, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Luis Edwardo Retta This time of the year marks the annual Binational Health Week at the Mexican Consulate of Austin. Along with Ventanillas de Salud all over the country, the Austin Ventanilla…
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Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico: New MCN Project

Sep 20, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Photo by CSMOne year ago, Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico. Thousands of people were cut off from basic services and necessities -- but Puerto Rico’s rural community health centers quickly…
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TB Elimination: Unprecedented Efforts in Marshall Islands Will "Have Downstream Effects"

Sep 19, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Every morning for three weeks, MCN’s Co-Chief Medical Officers, Ed Zuroweste, MD, and Laszlo Madaras, MD, woke up early in Majuro, the capital city of the Marshall Islands, and went for a run.…
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Health Systems as Places of Sanctuary

Jun 4, 2018
By: Carmen Vélez Vega
By Seth Holmes (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley), Anita Berlin (Barts and the London St. Mary's School of Medicine), Fabian Fernandez (University of California San Francisco), Deliana Garcia (…
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Diabetes, Food Deserts, Depression, and More with Martha González from Clínica Romero

May 2, 2018
By: Jenna Feinauer
In the heart of one of the biggest cities in the country, Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero, or simply Clínica Romero, provides a variety of much-needed health services to the medically underserved…
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Blue Tarps, Generators, and the Coqui: Puerto Rico Gives New Meaning to Resiliency

Apr 25, 2018
By: Amy Liebman
Photo: Corporación de Servicios Médicos (CSM) Spanish translation here By Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA Tired. Sad. Strong. These were just a few words that came to mind as I looked at my friend and…
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"Looks Can Be Deceiving:" Deliana Garcia Reports from Puerto Rico

Jan 29, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Green is back with a vengeance in Puerto Rico. A testament to the power of the sun and the rain to heal – plants at least. On closer inspection, you can see that all of the new growth is at the end…
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A1C Under Nine: How to Get Diabetes and Hypertension Under Control, New ECHO Series in Spanish

Jan 9, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
How many of your patients with diabetes are keeping their Hemoglobin A1C levels below nine? Migrant Clinicians Network has taken on HRSA’s call to proactively address diabetes and hypertension to…
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Outside the Clinic Walls: Health Centers Can Make an Impact on the Social Determinants of Health Through SDOH Academy

Jan 3, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
A patient is having a hard time getting her diabetes under control. The clinician has done everything -- the correct prescriptions, a class with the dietician, a group lesson and take-home brochure…
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Discussing the Damage to Health Facilities in Puerto Rico

Oct 23, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last week, MCN's Alma Galvan spoke via email with Alexis Serrano of Corporacion de Servicios Medicos, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Puerto Rico with which MCN has worked on multiple projects…