Care Facilitation
• Updates on Ebola:
o Key Partner Messages from CDC (08/22/14): Attached.
o Letter to State Refugee Health Coordinators (08/12/14): Attached.
o PDPH Fact Sheet: Attached.
• Medicaid Expansion: On August 28th, CMS approved the Healthy PA Medicaid expansion plan which will cover approximately 300,000 Pennsylvanians including many refugees. See a summary of the news related to expansion here: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2014/August/28/pa-medicaid-pm.aspx. Stay tuned for available resources to help clients enroll during the upcoming enrollment period (November 15 to February 15.) Also check out our webinar on ACA and Medicaid Expansion below.
Partnership and Training
• Save the Date for a webinar on Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion on Wednesday, October 29th at 12pm. Details to follow!
• The Learning Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma (NCTSN) has created a refugee services toolkit which includes information on refugee stress, suicide and refugee children and an assessment tool. Find out more here: http://learn.nctsn.org/mod/book/view.php?id=4518
• NCTSN has already created a site dedicated to working with unaccompanied immigrant minors. See more here: http://www.nctsn.org/content/working-unaccompanied-and-immigrant-minors
Best Practices and Research
• Submit your research today! Are you conducting research related to refugees in the Greater Philadelphia region? Please complete the form on the PRHC website so we can include your project on the website: http://philarefugeehealth.org/?page_id=1412. The site is updated continuously, so please submit your project today! Also, please see the attached notes on the Research Meet and Greet sessions which were held during the week of August 25!
• Several physicians from CHOP have contributed to the current edition of the journal, Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Healthcare. The articles serve as a review of the current screening recommendations as well as of some new innovations in nutrition, infectious diseases, and psychological adaptation post-migration among refugee children. Meera Siddharth, Mary Fabio, Khoi Dang, Alison Tribble, Kate Yun and others helped edit and review the individual articles. Contributors include CHOP physicians as well as from the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. Please see a bibliography of the articles here:
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Siddharth, M. (2014). Primary Health Care for Refugees – Introduction. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 44(7), 185.
Fabio, M. (2014). Nutrition for Refugee Children: Risks, Screening, and Treatment. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care, 44(7), 188-195.
Dang, K., & Tribble, A. C. (2014). Strategies in Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Among US-Bound Refugee Children. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care, 44(7), 196-207.
Measham, T., Guzder, J., Rousseau, C., Pacione, L., Blais-McPherson, M., & Nadeau, L. (2014). Refugee Children and Their Families: Supporting Psychological Well-Being and Positive Adaptation Following Migration. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 44(7), 208-215.
• These articles and many, many others are available in an updated section on the PRHC website titled Guidelines and Literature. Check it out here: http://philarefugeehealth.org/?page_id=1699
Advocacy
• The Washington Post recently published an article on the historical overview of the refugee situation in the US title “How America’s Refugee Population has Changed Over Time”. Find the article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/08/13/how-americas-refugee-population-has-changed-over-time/
