Oregon Latino Health Coalition

Achieving Health Equity Vital to Healthcare Reform

That means including culturally and linguistically appropriate services and integrating community health workers and doulas into the care teams, according to Tricia Tillman

Alberto Moreno, executive director of the Oregon Latino Health Coalition, launched the Oregon Health Equity Alliances’ Oregon Equity Project session with what he called a “radical idea”:  that all should  have “unabridged access to healthcare” and the “best culturally competent care possible.”

By: 
Jan Johnson

Latino Health Coalition Wants Traditional Health Worker Commission

The Lund Report
The commission would have a majority membership of health workers to set standards for these workers who are touted as a key part of Oregon’s healthcare delivery transformation

 

April 8, 2013 -- A patient came into a Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Clinic with diabetes, but try as the doctor might, the patient would not take the insulin that she was prescribed.

Enter: A community health worker.

By: 
Christopher David Gray

Coalition Seeks to Improve Latino Healthcare Access

The Lund Report
Prenatal care, other policy issues are the focus of advocacy efforts

July 31, 2012 -- With healthcare reform well under way at the federal and state level, Alberto Moreno, executive director of the Oregon Latino Health Coalition, believes the system needs to serve the needs of the Latino community.

“We found that there was a vacuum of Latino health advocates in decision-making in the state process,” Moreno said. “We knew there wasn’t anyone who was actively helping to inform state policy that impacted the half a million Latinos in Oregon. That became our calling.”

By: 
W. Scott Jorgensen
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