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MCN's monthly e-Newsletter, Network News, provides you with news and resources available from MCN and our partners. We welcome your feedback and/or suggestions for content. Please email Jillian Hopewell with your comments. |
UPCOMING EVENTS
MCN Sponsored Webinars for March
 Exploring the Intersection of Tropical Medicine and Migrant Health
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
10:00am PST (Noon CST, 1:00pm EST) Presenter: Adam Hoverman, DO, DTM&H. Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Global Health
Click here to register for this webinar.
Coming Soon... MCN will be sponsoring a webinar titled "Considerations in End of Life Care for Migrant and Immigrant Populations." Keep an eye out for more details about this unique and important event.
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RECENT HAPPENINGS
EOH Update
In March, MCN and its partners unveiled a pair of clinical tools - the Cholinesterase Testing Protocol for Health Care Providers and the Cholinesterase Testing Protocol Algorithm. The cholinesterase protocol and algorithm, according to Carolyn Sheridan, BSN, RN, Clinical Director at Agrisafe Network, are helpful, simple tools in a concise format for clinicians to use as guides.  
Sheridan, along with Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH Director of the National Farm Medicine Center, and Amy Liebman, MPA, MA from MCN, reviewed seven state and federal cholinesterase monitoring protocols to develop this comprehensive tool. Experts in environmental and occupational health, pesticides, migrant health and agricultural health and safety peer-reviewed the newly developed tools, which also received the endorsement of MCN's Environmental and Occupational Health Advisory Committee. MCN's most recent webinar, the Nuts & Bolts of Cholinesterase Monitoring for Farmers, Ranchers and Agricultural Workers, featured the cholinesterase protocol and algorithm. Please visit MCN's Clinician to Clinician blog for more information about, Cholinesterase and the ChE Testing Protocol and Algorithm. |
| Education is Vital for Tuberculosis Prevention
MCN is pleased to announce the installation of 3 billboards designed to educate the border population about tuberculosis in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. This effort was brought about through binational collaboration between the public health authorities from Chihuahua, New Mexico and the Migrant Clinicians Network, with funding from New Mexico Department of Health and Juarez-Las Cruces Office of Border Health. The end goal is to help the border population recognize tuberculosis symptoms and encourage people to get medical care.
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| New Resources from MCN to Help Health Centers Recruit Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Board Member
MCN has created two new resources for health centers. "Improve Migrant/Seasonal Farmworker Board Recruitment at Community Health Centers" is designed as a Quality Improvement tool to assist the recruitment of MSFW clinic users to consumer board member positions for the Community Health Center through clinician referral. Consumer representation is a program requirement for all health centers receiving 330 funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration. A second tool developed by MCN is a template for a poster designed to solicit MSFW participation in health center boards.
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| Model Tools and Instructions for Community Health Centers to Effectively Utilize Workers Compensation
 Typically, it has been difficult for community health centers, which serve as safety net providers, to treat patients with work-related injuries and illnesses. The health centers commonly see injured workers whose employers may be illegally uninsured for workers' compensation, not informed about the right to receive workers' compensation benefits, and not directed to workers' compensation medical care. The Watsonville Law Center has collaborated with U.C. Berkeley's Labor Occupational Health Program to produce the booklet, Providing Medical Services to Low-Wage Workers with Job Injuries, 2012, to help community health centers create a financially sustainable program to treat patients with work-related injuries and illnesses.
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MCN is Seeking Promising Practices in Migrant Health
The Migrant Clinicians Network has been collecting a series of promising practices in migrant health. Each promising practice is categorized by the clinical area addressed and highlights the work of health centers across the country. We have a number of Promising Practices cataloged, but always welcome the addition of new examples of excellence in practice from around the country. If you have a clinical, outreach or patient education practice at your site that you think should be highlighted please contact Jillian Hopewell. We look forward to hearing from you!
Pesticide Reporting Map
MCN collaborated with Farmworker Justice to create a simple user-friendly map for clinicians and other health professionals to access information about how to report pesticide exposures in their state.
The Pesticide Reporting Map provides clinicians and others with state-specific pesticide reporting requirements and appropriate surveillance agencies. We've also included the agencies responsible for enforcing the Worker Protection Standard in each state.
Health Network Update
Health Network is currently managing 738 cases.
For weekly updates, please visit the Health Network page on MCN's website.
We are scheduling Health Network enrollment trainings for year 2012. Call (512) 579-4508 to schedule training at your site today.
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