Cluster clinics help migrant workers stay healthy in Minnesota

“Migrant farm workers with a chronic disease present a special challenge to health care providers. Studies show as a group migrant farm workers are young and poor most make less than $7,500 a year. Approximately 85 percent of all migrant farm workers are minorities, most are of Hispanic descent.

In the Red River Valley, the Migrant Health Services uses what they call cluster clinics to help people get the health care and services they need to treat chronic illnesses like diabetes.”

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