Success Stories by Topic: Migrants

• Diabetes Lay Educator Program: Enhancing Health Care for Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers
  May 2009
  The Diabetes Lay Educator Program was designed to reduce the high mortality rate and medical costs associated with diabetes in the area’s Hispanic population and to increase access to high quality, culturally competent health care services geared toward helping clients effectively manage diabetes.
• Southeast Georgia Communities Health Links Project
  May 2009
  The primary purpose of the Health Links project was to address linguistic and cultural barriers to health care experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers in a four-county region in southeast Georgia by providing interpretation services, health education, case management, and improved access to primary health care services.
• Rural Health Outreach Diabetes Education Program
  May 2009
  The rural health outreach project made nearly 2,500 potential patient contacts, and, as a result of this outreach, 476 people became enrolled in the diabetes education program.
• Migrant Health Service, Inc. $10 Self-Pay Drug Plan
  January 2008
  Migrant Health Service, Inc. (MHSI) was awarded the 2007 Sister Cecilia B. Abhold Award for Innovation in Health Outreach in the Midwestern stream. The award recognizes MHSI’s unique $10 Self-Pay Drug Plan that increases access to affordable medications in rural areas of North Dakota and Minnesota.
• Migrant Health Service, Inc. and Fargo-Moorhead YMCA Program
  January 2008
  Migrant Health Service, Inc. (MHSI) was recognized for its partnership with the Fargo-Moorhead YMCA that has provided facility memberships to more than 15 local farmworker families at no cost.
• St. Joseph Health System Sonoma County
  December 2007
  The goal of the personal health record pilot project is to improve health outcomes of migrant and seasonal workers, agricultural worker families, and mobile population groups.
• HELP New Mexico Farm Workers
  June 2007
  The Farm Worker Child Care Task Force is a collaborative program that provides access to health services and improved living conditions to New Mexican farm workers and their families in Ana and Luna counties.
• Dancing to Deter Diabetes
  June 2007
  The "Reach Out" project in rural Lake County, California, helps diabetics learn about nutrition and medication, and they dance.
• Family Healthcare Network, Tulare County
  July 2006
  Family HealthCare Network (FHCN) is a primary care clinic with ten sites located in Tulare County, in California's rural San Joaquin Valley. FHCN exists to provide quality healthcare to everyone in the communities we serve.
• Farmworker Case Management Across Borders
  July 2005
  This project's overall objective for the migrant and seasonal worker populations was to increase their access to health services and specifically: (1) to increase management of their chronic diseases; (2) to increase completion of their treatment for communicable diseases; (3) to reduce their need for emergency dental care; and to increase their access to vision care.