March 13, 2003
Media advisory
Date: March 13, 2003
To: News editors, assignment editors, photo
editors
From: Pat Pyke, Boise State communications and marketing,
426-1987, ppyke@boisestate.edu
Subject:La Buena Salud
mobile health unit will bring services to sheepherders’ camp in Emmett
With a colorfully painted mobile health bus,
Boise State nursing students and faculty will bring health screening services to
the sheepherders’ camp in Letah (Emmett) from
-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18. Media representatives
are welcome to come along on this visit that is sure to generate many photo
opportunities and meaningful stories about people in need of health care in this
rural community.
The mobile health clinic is part of the La Buena
Salud Idaho Hispanic Wellness Initiative. La Buena Salud means “good health”
in Spanish. The initiative is funded by a three-year, $600,000 grant from the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Administration.
The grant was awarded last summer to Boise-based Mountain States Group, a
private nonprofit organization, in collaboration with the Boise State University
department of nursing.
The Boise State nursing department receives
approximately $205,000 of the grant and uses most of the funding to lease a
mobile unit to deliver health-screenings and educational materials to rural
Hispanic farmworker communities on a regular basis. The mobile unit has visited
camps in Marsing, Wilder and Caldwell.
La Buena Salud not only delivers health services
to rural families, but it also helps educate university students and practicing
health professionals in an interdisciplinary approach to culturally appropriate
wellness care.
Boise State nursing students and faculty work
closely with local community services, government agencies and health-care
agencies such as the Lions Club, the Idaho Migrant Council and Terry Reilly
Health Services to provide education for students and health services for
Hispanics in rural areas.
For more information about the visit to the
sheepherders’ camp or about La Buena Salud, please contact Boise State nursing
professor Sharon K. Stoffels at 426-3631 or sstoffel@boisestate.edu.
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