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Anita Buel
Community Health Leaders
2008
Area(s) of Expertise:
Services for Deaf
Leader's Biography 2008:
ANITA BUEL, Director, Deaf Community Health Worker Project, Inner Grove Heights, Minnesota
As a deaf person, Anita Buel has had to overcome innumerable communication barriers when seeking medical care. Members of the deaf community are often excluded from the national health agenda and they are rarely mentioned when talking about people for whom spoken English is a second language. After being diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer as a young mother and not having adequate resources devoted to the deaf community for her disease, Buel’s leadership at the Deaf Community Health Worker program is responsible for training members of the deaf community to help deaf patients access medical services and understand medical issues in their language. Three years ago, a deaf person with a serious health care problem had no support at the doctor’s office. Today, thanks to Buel’s efforts, Deaf Community Health Workers’ services are now covered by Medical Assistance in Minnesota.
Where this Leader can be reached today:
Deaf Community Health Worker Project
2901 38th Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN
VP 866-948-1737
Fax: 651-330-4610
E-mail: Anitabuel2004@yahoo.com
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