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The Virtual Medical Home at Finger Lakes Community Health

The Virtual Medical Home at Finger Lakes Community Health

Nov 23, 2022
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
[Editor’s Note: This week, the fall issue of Streamline is arriving in mailboxes across the country. Streamline is Migrant Clinicians Network’s in-print quarterly publication, with clinical updates…
FAQ: COVID-19 and Migrant, Immigrant, and Food & Farm Worker Patients

FAQ: COVID-19 and Migrant, Immigrant, and Food & Farm Worker Patients

Nov 9, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
  Migrant Clinicians Network continues to receive questions from our clinical network on COVID-19 and vaccines for migrant, immigrant, and farmworker communities. Here, we offer our…
Celebrating Roxana Pineda Day in Austin

Celebrating Roxana Pineda Day in Austin

Nov 8, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN's Roxana Pineda, Karen Mountain and Jimena De Leija In Austin, Texas, November 3, 2022 was officially declared Roxana Pineda Day, named after Migrant Clinicians Network’s longtime Ventanilla de…
Free Services at Ventanilla de Salud Offices Support Binational Health

Free Services at Ventanilla de Salud Offices Support Binational Health

Oct 27, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Across the United States, the Ventanillas de Salud (VdS) offices within the Mexican Consulates have been celebrating Binational Health Month, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the US to…
Partner Spotlight: Asylum Seekers Shelter, San Diego

Partner Spotlight: Asylum Seekers Shelter, San Diego

Oct 13, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
Image from Sheltering Hope documentary In San Diego, thousands of asylum seekers cross the border every month, looking for a safe haven where they can pursue a better life. Linda Hill, MD, MPH, the…
New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

New Comic, Helping the Helpers, Gives Clinicians Strategies for Self-Care

Oct 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Clinicians focused on migrant, immigrant, and other underserved patients must balance personal and professional stressors for their entire careers – but the pandemic added new weight and complexity…
COVID, Long COVID, Treatments, and More: MCN Staff Reflect on Illness, Disparities in Care

COVID, Long COVID, Treatments, and More: MCN Staff Reflect on Illness, Disparities in Care

Oct 6, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
Over the pandemic, despite numerous precautions, many MCN staff members have wrestled with COVID, myself included. Over the summer, as BA.5 became the predominant variant, several of us came down…
New Mini-Documentary Celebrates FQHC Vaccination Outreach in Puerto Rico and St. Croix

New Mini-Documentary Celebrates FQHC Vaccination Outreach in Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Sep 12, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
  As vaccines became available in US territories, numerous obstacles to vaccination arose, including gaps in infrastructure as a result of economic instability and natural disasters, and widespread…
Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Delmarva Community Partners Strike at Misinformation, Equip Haitian Community with COVID Knowledge

Sep 6, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Nestled between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is the Delmarva peninsula, consisting of the state of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. Delmarva is home to diverse agricultural…
Still impacted by the pandemic, Immigrant workers share concerns about COVID-19

Still Impacted by the Pandemic, Immigrant Workers Share Concerns About COVID-19

Aug 16, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Hannia Benitez and her coworkers are concerned. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, the staff at El Vinculo Hispano, a North Carolina nonprofit serving Hispanic communities, has…
Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on Disenfranchised Communities

Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on Disenfranchised Communities

Aug 4, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Long COVID’s impact can span across many areas of a sufferer's life, affecting their physical abilities, mental health, work, and interpersonal relationships. Yet for disenfranchised populations,…
American Rescue Plan & Workforce Summit: CHWs & Hyperlocal Campaigns Build COVID Health Equity

American Rescue Plan & Workforce Summit: CHWs & Hyperlocal Campaigns Build COVID Health Equity

Jul 28, 2022
By: Esther Rojas
MCN's Esther Rojas at the American Rescue Plan and Workforce Summit. Earlier this month,  I had the honor and privilege of attending the American Rescue Plan and Workforce Summit hosted by the…
Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want

Coping Strategies: Reflecting on (and Chatting with) Newly Formed Habits, Plus Five Tips to Break the Ones You Don’t Want

Jul 21, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
[Editor’s Note: Every month, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, shares stories, resources, and helpful tips to support health care workers during these ongoing…
US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access

US and International Migration Policy Must Prioritize Health Care Access

Jul 12, 2022
By: MCN Admin
Two weeks ago, 53 people lost their lives to excessive and grueling heat exposure when their smuggler abandoned the semitruck in which they were traveling in the heat in San Antonio. This…
Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate

Florida Clinicians: How to Support Parents of Young Children in their Decision to Vaccinate

Jul 1, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Last month, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did not permit health care providers to pre-order COVID vaccines for children between the ages of six months and four years. Last week, however, the state…
Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Some Ideas For Offering Comfort When A Person Is Ill Or Grieving

Jun 23, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
[Editor’s Note: Every month, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, shares stories, resources, and helpful tips to support health care workers during these ongoing…
Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.

Partner Spotlight: Cottage House Inc.

Jun 14, 2022
By: MCN Admin
[Editor’s Note: In 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition and 20 organizational partners and members mobilized 221 community health outreach workers…
Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Prepare for Future Emergencies

Supporting Teachers & School Communities in the COVID-19 Response – And Preparing for Future Emergencies

Jun 2, 2022
By: Myrellis Muñiz Márquez
[Editor’s Note: June 1st marks the beginning of hurricane season. In Puerto Rico, Migrant Clinicians Network engages numerous community partners and industries to build hyper-local emergency…
Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

Chronic Sorrow: The Case for Turning Individual Grief to Collective Caring

May 26, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
[Editor’s Note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In her monthly blog post, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, reflects on grief, and what has changed (or not) since…
Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

Sheltering Hope Along the US-Mexico Border: New Short Film

May 11, 2022
By: MCN Admin
  Their stories are harrowing. The murder of children, and death threats at home. No work, no crops, no food. Unavoidable violence and a feeling that the only way to get to safety is to flee home.…
Peletah Ministries members gathered

Partner Spotlight: Peletah Ministries

May 5, 2022
By: MCN Admin
  [Editor’s Note: In 2021, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN), Rural Coalition and 20 organizational partners and members mobilized 221 community health outreach…
Clinicians standing together

When A Helper Needs Help: Caring for Health Care Workers During COVID

Apr 27, 2022
By: Kaethe Weingarten
  [Editor’s Note: Every month, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, shares stories, resources, and helpful tips to support health care workers during these ongoing…
Vaccine Acceptance Among Clinicians and What This Means for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities

Vaccine Acceptance Among Clinicians and What This Means for Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Communities

Apr 7, 2022
By: Robert Kinnaird
A new paper describing health care worker COVID-19 vaccine confidence and acceptance shows that clinicians who work with immigrant communities were more vaccine acceptant. In Healthcare worker…
Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Partner Spotlight: Coalition of 100 Black Women

Apr 6, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Following years of disinvestment in US public health and social services, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the mounting systemic racial inequity, poverty, and unequal access to…
A man receives a vaccination from a clinician

Trusted Messenger: Bringing Stories of Local Leaders Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccination

Mar 29, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When Alma Galván, MHC, received the new documentary, "Trusted Messenger,” from filmmaker Chris Newberry in September 2021, she immediately knew that it could have a lasting positive impact on…
Dr. Laszlo Madaras provides a check-up to a child held by their parent

Celebrating the Value of Underrepresented Voices: MacKenzie Scott Announces MCN Gift

Mar 24, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Dr. Laszlo Madaras, Chief Medical Officer at MCN, meets with migrants at a shelter in McAllen, Texas. At Migrant Clinicians Network, we have dedicated our lives to raising up the voices of migrants…