Indiana Hospitals Plan to Begin Tracking Health Inequities

Local data shows that doctors do a better job at ordering key tests for controlling patients’ diabetes for their white patients than their Black counterparts. For white patients, doctors order such tests on average 62% of the time. For Black patients that measure fell to 58%. It was even lower for Latino patients, 56%.

On a national scale, diabetes impacts one in six Black people and one in 10 white people. About 24% of Black people and 29% of Hispanic/Latino people who have diabetes have uncontrolled diabetes, compared with 11% of white diabetes patients.

In Marion County, where Black people make up 20% of the population, 37% of those who receive diabetes care are Black patients, said Dr. Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, vice president and chief health equity officer at IU Health.

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Representation is an ‘Encanto’: Afro-Latinos will not be erased

“But you don’t look Latina,” is a phrase IU senior Emillianna Puello knows all too well.

Puello, who is Black and Dominican, identifies as Afro-Latina. Puello and Afro-Latinos everywhere have struggled with passive aggressive comments that discount their culture. 

According to a Pew Research study, Afro-Latinos make up 5% of the Black population in America. Despite this, they had little to no media representation until the Disney movie “Encanto” was released on Nov. 24, 2021. 

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Communities Not Cages Indiana Coalition

The Communities Not Cages Indiana Coalition invites you to participate in several events this week which are associated in part with the Detention Watch Network’s National Advocacy Day on Thursday March 3rd.  The goal of the Communities Not Cages Indiana Coalition is to help reverse the proposed expansion of the Clay County Jail in the heart of Brazil, Indiana.  This jail houses both local people charged with breaking the law and immigrants detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials through a contract with ICE.  County authorities justify the proposed enlargement of Clay County Jail in part on the expected continued massive detention of immigrants, even though those numbers have dropped considerably under the Biden administration.  We fervently hope that federal and local policies will shift to humanitarian alternatives to detention for both immigrant detainees and local incarcerated folks in the near future.

  • Visions for Clay County: A Community Conversation Sunday, March 6, 4:00-5:15 pm EST*In person event* Location: Brazil First United Methodist Church, 201 N Meridian St.Facebook Invite (for sharing via social media): https://fb.me/e/1Lkhj6rL3; Please see attached flyer!Description:Especially for residents of Brazil IN and all of Clay County: What do you enjoy about living in Clay County? What opportunities and needs do you see in the community? If you had $20 million dollars to spend on your community, how would you spend it? Join this community conversation facilitated by Rev. Kerry Clear of Brazil First United Methodist Church to share your voice and vision for a Clay County that addresses important issues, welcomes the stranger in our midst, and provides the resources necessary for everyone to thrive. This conversation is in partnership with the Communities Not Cages Indiana Coalition and is a part of the national Communities Not Cages Advocacy Day during the first week of March.

Community Voices for Health Events

You might recall emails about zoom meetings where community leaders heard from people that do not have traditional health insurance.    This includes those who lack medical insurance, are under-insured, for various reasons.  These groups could be people of color,  or from different ethnic backgrounds, recently arrived in the US.    Several RSN clients participated in this.

   
After these, the group has had several other meetings and want to offer an expanded opportunity to hear from these groups, who find it difficult to get health care in our city. There are two community meetings offered.
Community Voices for Health Events | Eventbrite. The Sunday Aug 29 event is in the Library, but there is a September 14 zoom session for the same topic. please review the attached. This is very worthwhile, as this group is trying hard to find out how to better support these important groups in our community.  

Exámenes de mama gratuito y pruebas de cáncer de uterino, para las personas de bajos ingresos

Estos servicios son para TODOS los residentes, independientemente de su estado de ciudadanía.

El Programa de cáncer de mama y de uterino (BCCP) brinda acceso a exámenes de detección de cáncer de mama y de cuello uterino, pruebas de diagnóstico y tratamiento para mujeres desatendidas y con seguro insuficiente que califican para los servicios.

 El BCCP atiende a entre 3.000 y 4.000 mujeres al año.

A través del BCCP, las mujeres residentes de Indiana pueden calificar para exámenes de detección y diagnósticos gratuitos de cáncer de mama y de cuello uterino.  Estos servicios son para TODOS los residentes del estado de Indiana, independientemente de su estado de ciudadanía! Solo necesitará un comprobante de residencia como una factura de servicios públicos o eléctrico, y estar por debajo del 200% del nivel federal de pobreza (consulte las pautas de ingresos en la tabla a continuación)

 aquí está el sitio web que proporciona más detalles

 HealthNet – Centro de salud de Bloomington
811 W 2nd St, Bloomington, IN 47403
 (812) 333-4001

El programa apoya a mujeres de diferentes edades y Healthnet tiene hispanohablantes en su personal.
 

Cosecha Narrative Indiana 2021

In Indiana, politicians have forced us to drive without a license since 2007, when they changed the requirements to obtain or renew them. We know that politicians can change the law and return our licenses, allowing us to drive without fear. One reason that our working immigrant community is exposed to deportation is because of the abuse through the discretion that police have when they stop us and we are unable to provide a license. This year we pressured democrats in our state congress to change the law, but when things got hard, they left the future of the law and of our community to chance and we never reached a vote. For all of us to be eligible to obtain driver’s licenses, politicians need to prioritize our working immigrant community in this next 2022 congressional session.
No more of our work should be solely through politicians, they must stop with their false promises!
In order to achieve this we need to unite all the people!