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Outside of Clinica Msr. Oscar A. Romero Community Health Center

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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Diabetes ECHO: Interview With Diana, Health Promoter, on Diabetes In Her Community

Apr 3, 2018
By: Jenna Feinauer
MCN’s ECHO Diabetes series drew attention from health centers throughout the United States, with participation from twenty-two community health workers who represented ten health centers and programs…
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Successful Programs of Self-management, Control and Prevention of Diabetes

Mar 21, 2018
By: Alyssa Finley
In the fifth session of our Project ECHO on diabetes, MCN facilitated talks with experts on self-management for diabetes. This ECHO series aims to share tools and tactics, help community health…
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On the Path to Migrant Health: Gathering Information on Chemical Safety Trainings

Feb 20, 2018
By: Alyssa Finley
With the change in weather, there also comes a change in workload. Spring brings with it the hammering of nails and sounds of loud machinery, the planting of fields and landscaping, as well as a…
Project ECHO Migrant Clinicians Network

Straight To The Frontlines: Diabetes Experts Engage Directly with Community Health Workers in MCN’s Newest Project ECHO

Feb 7, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
A woman with a hemoglobin A1C of 9 struggles to change her diet with so little money, no education on cooking healthier foods, and no markets with fresh food in her neighborhood. Another woman, a…
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Now What? Clinical Strategies for Vulnerable Workers, Months After Disaster

Feb 1, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The hurricanes that lashed large swaths of the South and the Caribbean, the fires that blackened neighborhoods, farms, and wildlands across the West -- while the severe events themselves have ended…
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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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Maria, Two Months Old, Had Congenital Zika. Should She Stay on the Immunization Schedule?

Aug 30, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Maria* is a two-month-old patient at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Puerto Rico. It’s time for her two-month vaccinations -- but her doctor is hesitant. Maria had congenital Zika, which…
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MCN’s Top Five Pesticide Resources for National Poison Prevention Week

Mar 23, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It’s National Poison Prevention Week. Agricultural workers are at a heightened risk for poisonings from pesticides -- and clinicians need the tools to be able to best recognize and manage a poisoning…
MCN Five on Friday

Five on Friday | October 14, 2016

Oct 14, 2016
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Today’s Five on Friday’s selections exemplify how urgent our work in migrant health and health justice really is. As record-breaking numbers of people set off from their homes in search of safer…
MCN Zika Echo Project

MCN and Puerto Rico Primary Care Association Launch Zika ECHO Clinic

Sep 8, 2016
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Yesterday, over 40 Puerto Rican nurses, promotores de salud, and other health care providers and advocates logged on to virtually participate in Zika ECHO Clinic: Puerto Rico, a new ECHO project…