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[Editor’s Note: Congratulations to our Environmental and Occupational Health team in Salisbury, Maryland! This new grant will go far in serving migratory agricultural worker families along the East Coast. Here’s the press release; learn more about Aetna at www.aetnafoundation.org] Migrant Clinicians Network has been selected as a grantee in the Aetna Foundation’s Cultivating Healthy... Read More
Five on Friday: Tech Infrastructure Help for Puerto Rico and a Surprise Farmworker Appreciation Video
This week’s Five on Friday covers tech infrastructure help for Puerto Rico, two pieces on underserved children’s health, and a farmworker appreciation video, all recommended by MCN staff. The NHIT Care Campaign for Puerto Rico Karen, CEO, shared the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved’s NHIT Care Campaign to provide emergency medical... Read More
[Nota del editor: ¡Ha sido un mes muy ocupado, hasta ahora! No queremos dejar atrás el trabajo estelar de Leslie Díaz, MSSW, Asociada de la Red de Salud en la Ventanilla de Salud aquí en Austin para la Semana Binacional de Salud. Ventanilla de Salud es un programa de extensión de salud dentro del Consulado de México en ciudades de todo el país. La Semana Binacional de Salud, que tiene como... Read More
Pudieran describirnos cómo están los edificios (hospitales) de CSM? Como se ven en estos momentos? Hay edificios dañados? Cuantos estan dañados y cuantos se están usando actualmente?Afortunadamente el edificio de CSM de la Calle Antonio R. Barcelo #5 en Utuado Puerto Rico no sufrió daños estructurales ya que se protegieron las ventanas de cristal con tormentas y la inundación del Río. Vivi... Read More
Five on Friday: Helicopter Flights Delivering Key Medicines in Ongoing Crisis in Puerto Rico and the Early Hours of the Sonoma Wildfires
This week’s Five on Friday gives a glimpse into how closely we are watching the health and safety developments in the days after the disasters around the hemisphere. Many of the patients we serve have been directly or indirectly affected by a crisis in the last month. What are you reading to keep you informed? Send us the articles and resources that opened your eyes on Facebook.... Read More
El niño lindo de Facebook con fotos de calabaza y mensajes políticos sombríos fueron menos prominentes esta semana, como miles y miles de mujeres y otros -- probablemente muchos de nuestros propios amigos de Facebook -- subieron un simple hashtag: #yotambien. Llegando en medio del mes de Conocimento sobre la Violencia Doméstica y después de los escándalos de acoso sexual y abuso sexual en... Read More
Cuando pensamos en la identificación y tratamiento de la tuberculosis, a menudo pensamos en el departamento de salud local. Después de todo, están configurados para asumir el papel principal en asuntos de salud pública, proporcionar tratamiento para enfermedades altamente infecciosas como la tuberculosis e identificar, contactar y tratar, si es necesario, a aquellos que pudieron haber... Read More
Left to Right: Alicia Gonzales (NCFH), Gladys Cate (HRSA), Alma Galván (MCN) and Jose Rodriguez (Medical Director at Hospital General Castañer.) [Editor’s Note: Over the weekend, Jose Rodriguez, MD, Medical Director at Hospital General Castañer and longtime partner of MCN attended the East Coast Migrant Stream Forum, arriving from hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico. Last week, Dr. Rodriguez... Read More
Five on Friday: Documentary on Life and Work of Dolores Huerta and Impact of Emergencies on Health Information and EHR Safety
I live in Marin County, about 20 minutes from the frontlines of one of the massive Northern California fires raging on today. I write this from my parents’ house -- my daughter and I have left home because it was too smoky and school has been canceled. Many friends have lost homes, are evacuated, or are on advisory to leave at a moment’s notice. Ash covers the front porch of my home, the... Read More
Last week, MCN’s Leslie Diaz, who works as a Health Network Associate at the Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) in Austin, Texas, called Francisco Gámez, with Aids Interfaith Network/Manos Unidas and VdS in Dallas, TX to hear about the health needs of Houston evacuees in Dallas. VdS is a program of the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Health housed in Mexican Consulates in the... Read More
