Tag: clinic
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Ikonopedia Completes Remote Cloud-Based Implementation at Marshfield Clinic
Tags: clinicIkonopedia announced the completion of an implementation of its structured breast reporting and risk assessment tools at Marshfield Clinic … Read Full Article
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CANCELED: Legal Clinic
If you need help, please email [email protected]. Learn and get FREE support about deportation. This event is Free and open to African (All African countries and Black people of the diaspora, … Read Full Article
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Local clinic works with immigrants struggling with mental health issues
MN-based studyIntensive mental health therapy can help heal refugees fleeing war Sahan JournalNew generation pushes Hmong mental health concerns into the light Correction (March 11, 2020): An earlier … Read Full Article
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Federal grant helps providers screen and vaccinate hepatitis B patients in Sacramento
Hmong Americans have the shortest survival due to chronic hepatitis B infection. The project focuses on HALO community clinic patients. Pregnant women, regardless of race and ethnicity, will be … Read Full Article
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Hmong farmers, HealthEast write prescription for better health: Veggie boxes
The contents of a Veggie Rx box are laid out on a table inside of the University of Minnesota Physicians Phalen Village Family Medicine Clinic in St. Paul. The Veggie Rx program provides patients with … Read Full Article
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Aviation Heritage Center in Sheboygan Falls to host T-28 air clinic | Briefs
This aircraft also has special meaning to the Hmong community because of its use in the war in Laos in the 1970’s during the Vietnam war. Hmong pilots were trained by Americans to fly these sturdy … Read Full Article
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Women’s Giving Circle Opens Grant Application Period
Past grants have been awarded to the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire, the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic, the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, and many more local groups over the years. More … Read Full Article
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A retired physician continues caring for NorthPoint friends
It’s wonderful working in a clinic with interpreters who can help Spanish, Somali, and Hmong speakers feel more comfortable. They can also help us learn about what’s culturally appropriate. NP: What f… Read Full Article
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Worthington’s free clinic for undocumented immigrants draws doctors and volunteers from across Minnesota
Working with worried patients, trying to communicate in Spanish or French or Hmong or K’iche’ or an African dialect, she tries to reassure them: “You’re not alone. We’re here to help.” For Plevak … Read Full Article
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Wisconsin health mission celebrates 25 years
That clinic was created to serve the waves of Hmong people who settled the region in the 1980s, especially to provide immunizations for children who never had been vaccinated. St. Clare and the screening clinic operated jointly for a time, until the … Read Full Article
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St. Clare Health Mission at 25: ‘Great success story,’ with 18,000 patients served in La Crosse
That clinic was created to serve the waves of Hmong people who settled the region in the 1980s, especially to provide immunizations for children who never had been vaccinated. St. Clare and the screening clinic operated jointly for a time, until the … Read Full Article
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St. Clare Health Mission at 25: ‘Great success story,’ with 18,000 patients served
That clinic was created to serve the waves of Hmong people who settled the region in the 1980s, especially to provide immunizations for children who never had been vaccinated. St. Clare and the screening clinic operated jointly for a time, until the … Read Full Article
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Hablas Español? For newcomers from Latin America to the Chippewa Valley seeking a doctor, the answer is, ‘I do speak Spanish’
“Occasionally, we have patients that don’t speak English, but we still meet their needs.” Marshfield Clinic has Hmong and Spanish interpreters on site, and the clinic uses a language line — a telephone interpreting service — to help bridge the … Read Full Article
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Immigration legal clinic in Stockton to help Southeast Asian community
Organizers said attorneys who speak other languages, such as Hmong, will be available if there are requests from the community. People interested in attending are encouraged to register to provide details about what information and services they need … Read Full Article
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Proposed health care interpreter registry passes HHS committee
Mai Xia Lao, a Hmong interpreter, told of how her own father was once on the receiving end of a grievous translation error during a visit to the clinic. Her voice wavered as she explained how an interpreter botched the Hmong word for “liver,” replacing … Read Full Article
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English as the official language? What does that even mean?
I’ve got qualms, but no deal-breakers. By way of anecdote (from a friend), when your federally funded social work clinic is getting challenged in court because you don’t have HPV pamphlets in Hmong when you’ve got them in Vietnamese and Spanish … Read Full Article
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Commentary: I’m a Korean American. Why Is Trump Questioning How American I Am?
Whether I was visiting an Indonesian women’s health clinic or meeting Lao Hmong refugees at risk of being repatriated to Laos, I was not offended to be mistaken for a local. When asked where I was from, I proudly explained that I am a citizen of a multi … Read Full Article
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Tuberculosis Outbreak Happening in Ramsey County
Dr. Stacy Rizza runs the Mayo Clinic Center for TB. Rizza says close, confined contact with an affected person is required pass on the infection. So far, the outbreak is confined to elderly members of the Hmong community. Read Full Article