* This webinar will be provided in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish *
What can the health provider in the exam room, or the outreach worker in the field, do to assist a patient with an ongoing health concern, who has to move during their treatment? They can sign the patient up with Health Network.
Migrant Clinicians Network’s Health Network (HN) is an easily modifiable patient navigation system with application in disease surveillance and treatment management for any injuries, illnesses, or care needs among mobile populations. MCN works with health centers across the country to provide ongoing continuity of care services to mobile patients coping with any health condition. Patients who are, or who are likely to be, mobile are enrolled by health centers into the HN system. MCN's Health Network Associates then work virtually with those mobile patients to make sure their records are transferred, that patients get appointments at their next location, and that the enrolling health center receives the necessary data to close out the patient services and continue with those services at their next location.
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Health Network: Learn to Use the PortalMCN has created a secure portal for health center use in enrolling and following up on the progress of their patients in the program. The portal will greatly improve the ease with which health centers can enroll patients in Health Network. |
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to…
- Understand which patients are eligible for continuity of care services provided by Health Network.
- Describe the benefits of enrolling patients into Health Network for continuity of care services.
- Describe the documents needed to enroll a patient in Health Network.
- Understand the challenges to sustaining a continuity of care program for mobile patients.
Presenters
Laszlo
Madaras
MD, MPH, FAAFP, SFHM
Chief Medical Officer
Migrant Clinicians Network
As the Chief Medical Officer for Migrant Clinicians Network, Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH is responsible for the oversight of MCN clinical activities. He also serves as a subject matter expert for various health topics including emerging issues, farmworker health, and Tuberculosis. Over the last 30 years, in parts of Africa, Central America, South America, the Pacific Islands, and the United States, Dr. Madaras has served thousands for wide-ranging ailments, including newly emerging diseases.
Dr. Madaras arrived to in the United States as a Hungarian refugee in 1968 at the age of seven and eventually became a US citizen. Dr. Madaras received his MD and MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1993. Early experiences include working as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in pediatrics in Gabon, West Africa; as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Congo; and as a pesticide review manager at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He worked on the Congo/Rwandan border during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and on the Hungarian border with the former Yugoslavia in 1995.
Since 1996, Dr. Madaras has been a board-certified family physician in both inpatient and outpatient medicine in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine, and Obstetrics. He served as a frontline clinician at the Keystone Health Center where he cared for farmworkers and their families and became Assistant Medical Director from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, he became a hospitalist in Chambersburg and Waynesboro Hospitals in south central Pennsylvania, where he continues to work part time. In 2016, he became a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine. In 2020, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
In addition, Dr. Madaras has worked as a staff physician in Tuberculosis control at the Pennsylvania State Health Department since 2012, and regularly teaches US-based medical students on an international health rotation in Honduras. Dr. Madaras also teaches hospital medicine to Penn State nurse practitioner and physician assistant students and medical residents at Summit Health.
Alma
Colmenero
Prenatal Coordinator, Health Network
Migrant Clinicians Network
Alma Colmenero (she/her/ella) is the Prenatal Coordinator for Health Network, providing bilingual and culturally competent case management to hundreds of pregnant migrants to ensure they receive the prenatal, birth, and postpartum care they need. Colmenero began her Migrant Clinicians career in 2018, as a Health Network Associate, managing a wide range of cases until she advanced to Prenatal Coordinator in 2021 in recognition of her management successes and dedication. Colmenero holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration – Marketing from the University of Texas, Austin. She was born in San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato but has lived most of her life in Dallas, Texas before moving to Austin to pursue her undergraduate degree; she and her siblings are the first generation in their family to receive a college education. When she’s not working, Colmenero likes to watch movies and go to the pool. She has two young daughters and two dogs, a chihuahua named Tequila & a Cane Corso named Chevy, who love to be outdoors when it’s not too hot.
Continuing Education Credit (CEU)
Migrant Clinicians Network is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
