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Representative Leslie Muñoz urges Latino health task force to boost culturally specific care in Oregon
Summary
Lawmakers and clinicians told the House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care that House Bill 3,650 would create a Latino Health System Task Force to map culturally and linguistically specific referral networks and expand workforce pipelines to improve utilization among Latino Oregonians.
Representative Leslie Muñoz, the bill’s chief sponsor, told the House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care that House Bill 3,650 would create a Latino health system task force to describe and plan a culturally specific system of care for Latinos in Oregon.
Muñoz said the task force would produce two concrete outcomes: a culturally specific referral network that would allow Latino families and providers to find appropriate bilingual, bicultural services and a joint strategy with health systems and coordinated care organizations to grow the provider workforce. “HB 36 50 will create a Latino health care system task force,” she said, “The task force will have the broad charge of describing…
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