Speaker. I am particularly pleased that the conferees for the Labor. Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill have provided at least $1.5 million for new outreach Initiatives to migrant farmworkers and their families. This provision is in response to a migrant farmworker mobile clinic grant program Included In the Senate committee report accompanying the bill. I am particulariy proud of the program because it is based upon a successful mobile health clinic program In my district operated jointly by the Virginia Garcia Memorial Migrant Health Center and Northwest Medical Teams. a nonprofit volunteer physicians organization. In my district. the mobile medical and dental clinic provides primary care and dental services to over 13.000 migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families each year. It Is a proven. cost effective way of overcoming health care barriers experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Including Isolation and the lack of transportation. The use of mobile clinics can take health care services directly to farm labor camps and other nearby locations. Because I have seen firsthand the benefits of mobile medical outreach. I am a strong proponent of the Mobile Clinic Outreach Grant Program. I look forward to working with HRSA to develop a grant program that will help overcome the access barriers experienced by migrant farmworkers.
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