{"id":1424,"date":"2020-09-21T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2020\/09\/21\/health-services-for-h2a-workers\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:03:27","slug":"health-services-for-h2a-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2020\/09\/21\/health-services-for-h2a-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Services for H2A Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Passing on from Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland at UVM Extension. -TB<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>UVM Extension wants to make sure H2A workers are as healthy as possible during this busy time of year and into the future. The fall flu season combined with COVID is potentially a huge threat to the success and viability of farms and we want to help reduce this risk. We are making available FREE health services on and off-farm in the coming weeks and are doing a health needs assessment to help us make decisions about future services.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU THIS FALL:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Send an immigrant farmer outreach nurse to the farm for health screenings<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Arrange free telehealth visits for workers<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Provide COVID educational resources, screen potentially symptomatic workers by phone, and coordinate on-farm COVID testing for symptomatic workers<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Provide information about local flu clinics accessible to your crew (and when possible coordinate on farm flu clinics)<\/p>\n<p>WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Input of farm owners regarding their view of the health care needs of H2A workers<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Input of H2A workers regarding their health care needs and barriers to care<\/p>\n<p>HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qualtrics.uvm.edu\/jfe\/form\/SV_8cXdi3A4XwlxVRP\">Take a short survey!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farm owners or managers: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use this jennica.stetler. Either way, we\u2019ll be in touch with you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H2A workers: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would like to conduct these assessments in person at a time that is most convenient for the farm and workers while masked and practicing physical distancing. We hope to arrange these in person visits through farm owners or managers. You can help us do this by taking the survey or emailing jennica.stetler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing on from Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland at UVM Extension. -TB UVM Extension wants to make sure H2A workers are as healthy as possible during this busy time of year and into the future. The fall flu season combined with COVID is potentially a huge threat to the success and viability of farms and we want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2020\/09\/21\/health-services-for-h2a-workers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Services for H2A Workers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Terence Bradshaw","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/author\/tbradsha\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nZlV-mY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}