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Campaign Launches "Half the Care" Initiative

In recognition of the stark reality that patients with diabetes receive only 45% of the clinical diabetes care recommended by national guidelines, the Campaign has launched a statewide social marketing effort aimed at connecting providers with the tools and resources they need to provide full diabetes care and improve patient outcomes.

Click the image to visit the FullDiabetesCare Web site.

 

 

 

 

Policy Headlines

New Analysis Finds Major Gaps in Access to Diabetes Educators in New York

 The New York State Health Foundation’s Diabetes Policy Center and the Center for Health Workforce Studies have released the initial findings of a study that examined the state of the Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) workforce and revealed an unusually small and unequally distributed CDE presence across New York State.   
 The initial findings of the study showed that there are only 1,000 CDEs in New York State and more than two-thirds (68%) of those CDEs only provide diabetes education services to patients part time—less than 25 hours per week. The analysis also found that CDEs are predominantly located in urban areas, and that many rural areas have few or no CDEs at all.
 
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Community News

Working with the Community

The Campaign is working with community- and faith-based leaders across the state to help New Yorkers identify if they have diabetes, get the support they need to prevent diabetes and its complications, and get linked to clinical care.

To access information and tools related to diabetes efforts in faith-based organizations, public housing, workplaces as well as tools for mapping community data, please click here.