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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

Inadequate Investment in Diabetes Services Hampers Fight Against Growing Epidemic

The New York State Health Foundation's Diabetes Policy Center released a new report showing that the State's ability to contain the growing diabetes crisis is hampered by inadequate reimbursement and investment in proven services to prevent and treat diabetes.

Jointly conducted with the Center for Health Workforce Studies, the study examined the certified diabetes educator (CDE) workforce in New York, and illustrated that they are in short supply and unable to serve New Yorkers with the greatest burden of the disease.
 
To download the study, please click here. To read the press release, please click here.
  

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.