Reporting and tracking HINI cases among mobile populations, including migrant farmworkers - MCN' Health Network

[Guest guest]

Dear

Colleagues, this message is forwarded to you from Mountain at the Migrant

Clinician’s Network, I urge you to forward it to your clinical staff:

The

Migrant Clinicians

Network’s Health Network has a fourteen year history of providing patient

navigation (i.e., a comprehensive tracking and referral network), for mobile

patients. Health Network is comprised of four programs: TBNet (Tuberculosis),

Track II (Diabetes), Can-Track (Cancer Screening), and prenatal care. The

Health Network program provides access to continuous care for mobile patients

by navigating the health care delivery system for individual patients across

national and international borders.

Health

Network does this by providing a central storehouse of patient medical

information, thus helping providers maintain up-to-date clinical medical records for reporting and providing informed

medical care. Health Network’s multi-lingual, culturally-competent

staff link mobile patients and their providers by transferring medical records,

and providing toll-free case management access for patients and clinicians,

health care resources and referral, and appropriate health education to

patients.

In response to requests from MHCs, MCN will make the Health Network available

for patient navigation and bridge case management of patients that are confirmed

or suspected of having H1N1 and are moving. With a signed patient consent

form, we can work with these CHCs, other access points and individual patients

to make sure they are informed of the test results, receive appropriate care

and that the enrolling facility knows the outcome of their treatment.

Please have any organization that needs Health Network services call 1

800 825-8205.

Thank you and stay tuned,

Mountain MBA, MSN, RN

Chief Executive Officer

Migrant Clinicians Network

P.O. Box 164285

Austin, Texas 78716

(512) 327-2017 Office

(512) 579-4500 Office Direct

Forwarded by:

Bobbi Ryder

President & CEO

National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc.

1770 FM 967

Buda, TX

(512) 312-5453 direct line

(512) 312-5451 Mendoza , Assistant

(512) 312-2600

www.ncfh.org