experience with conducting clinical outreach?

[Guest guest]

Dear Migrant Health

Colleagues,

I

am collecting information for a client whose health center will soon start to

conduct clinical outreach with farmworkers. They plan to send clinical

providers into the field with outreach workers several nights a week.

They will conduct certain basic clinical services and for anything that

goes above and beyond what can be done in the field, they will refer and

transport patients back to the health center.

Because

this organization is new to outreach, especially clinical outreach, they are

interested in seeing examples of protocols that other health centers are using

for conducting clinical outreach with farmworkers.

In

addition to gathering samples of clinical outreach protocols, I would like to

speak to representatives from several health centers that routinely conduct

clinical outreach—or who have conducted clinical outreach in the past but

no longer do so for whatever reason. I know that this is not a service

that all health centers can readily provide but for those that do or who have

in the past, I would like to learn more about your experiences, challenges, and

lessons learned to date in providing this type of outreach.

Please

feel free to write to me off-line or let me know how to reach you. I am happy

to give you a call to discuss what you are doing. Also, if you know of

someone I should contact at another organization, please feel free to pass on his/her

contact information.

Thank

you as always for your assistance and I look forward to hearing from you!

Kristie

*************************************

Kristie McComb, MPH

Project Manager

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

1221 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Suite 5

Washington DC 20005

tel: 202-347-7377

fax: 202-347-6385

www.farmworkerhealth.org

Executive Office:

405

14th Street, Suite #809

Oakland,

CA 94612

tel: 510-268-0091

fax: 510-268-0093

[Guest guest]

Kristie: See http://www.migrantclinician.org/clearinghouse/list.php?file_category_id=79

for a policy for promotoras from a Migrant Health Center that may be helpful.

Candace Kugel, CRNP, CNM, MS

Migrant Clinicians

Network

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From:

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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:43 PM

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experience with conducting clinical outreach?

Dear Migrant Health Colleagues,

I am collecting information for a

client whose health center will soon start to conduct clinical outreach with

farmworkers. They plan to send clinical providers into the field with

outreach workers several nights a week. They will conduct certain basic

clinical services and for anything that goes above and beyond what can be done

in the field, they will refer and transport patients back to the health center.

Because this organization is new to

outreach, especially clinical outreach, they are interested in seeing examples

of protocols that other health centers are using for conducting clinical

outreach with farmworkers.

In addition to gathering samples of

clinical outreach protocols, I would like to speak to representatives from

several health centers that routinely conduct clinical outreach—or who

have conducted clinical outreach in the past but no longer do so for whatever

reason. I know that this is not a service that all health centers can

readily provide but for those that do or who have in the past, I would like to

learn more about your experiences, challenges, and lessons learned to date in

providing this type of outreach.

Please feel free to write to me

off-line or let me know how to reach you. I am happy to give you a call to

discuss what you are doing. Also, if you know of someone I should contact

at another organization, please feel free to pass on his/her contact

information.

Thank you as always for your assistance

and I look forward to hearing from you!

Kristie

*************************************

Kristie McComb, MPH

Project Manager

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

1221

Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Suite 5

Washington

DC

20005

tel: 202-347-7377

fax: 202-347-6385

www.farmworkerhealth.org

Executive Office:

405

14th Street, Suite #809

Oakland,

CA

94612

tel: 510-268-0091

fax: 510-268-0093