Note: Jennie Mclaurin, MD, MPH, is a Senior Fellow at NACHC. She served the migrant and seasonal farmworker community as an outreach worker, pediatrician, CMO and national expert for over 30 years. This post coincides with the Conference for Agricultural Worker Health which kicks off this week in Seattle, WA. “Tobacco pays my bills,” read …
Author: Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH
Health Information Technology (HIT) a Home Run for NACHC
We are overloaded with information—reports, web posts, newscasts, clinical updates, and even new coffee flavors clamor for our attention. How do we sift through it all? Is there a meaning to be distilled from all the data before us? This general cultural problem in our information age has become a particular hindrance in clinical decision-making. …
Planning and Partnerships for COVID-19 Vaccination: One Community Health
The vaccination effort has included pop-up vaccine events at concerts in the park, county fair events with health departments, outreach immunization clinics in multiple Native American villages, and visits a tiny remote community in Hood River.