Topic: Addressing an Endemic COVID-19
Organization Name: La Maestra Community Health Centers (LMCHC)
Organization Type: Health Center
Location (city/state): San Diego, California
Special or Vulnerable Population: Public Housing
Challenges: Access to care
Promising Practice: Utilizing existing cultural liaisons, pharmacy home deliveries
La Maestra Community Health Centers are located in San Diego, California with a culturally diverse patient population. Due to this, it was necessary to disseminate the information about COVID-19 vaccine and the local resources that were available in the community in different languages as quickly as possible. To fulfill this, LMCHC utilized their existing community partnerships and cultural liaisons to rapidly convey messages to their patient populations. Message included ways to address vaccine hesitancy, fear of contracting COVID-19 and ways to protect the elderly and those with existing medical conditions from COVID-19 infection.
Source Link: A New Normal: Learning to Live with COVID