More than 1.8 million New Yorkers have diabetes.
Tools
The Campaign has gathered links and tools that can assist health care providers, community leaders, faith leaders, and policy makers in helping New Yorkers prevent and manage diabetes and its complications. To access these resources, choose your criteria from the drop-down boxes and click the search button.
Tool for community organizations to map locations of partners and projects. Pictures can be uploaded and text descriptions can be inserted.
Article describes the development and evaluation of a community health advocacy program to help neighbors improve health in Dayton, Ohio.
New York Island Peer Review Organization (NY IPRO) Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Project aims to detect the incidence of CKD, decrease the progression of the disease, and improve overall care for Medicare beneficiaries. IPRO will promote provider adoption of timely and effective evidence-based clinical action, beneficiary education and key collaborations for system change at the state and local level.
Session aims to consider the reasons for measuring therapy modifications and the virtues of measuring outcomes vs. process measures (such as therapy intensification) as indicators of quality of care. Session discusses (1) what "optimal" levels of therapy intensification might be and possible reasons for not intensifying therapy; (2) the use of intermediate outcomes (e.g., proportions of patients in control) and process measures (e.g., proportions of patients screened, therapy modifications); and (3) physician preferences for such types of quality indicators.
Report details ways to use technology to train community health workers in rural settings, including examples from actual programs and explanations of barriers to learning are dicussed.
Resource discusses initiative to strengthen effective links between naturally occurring retirement community Supportive Services programs (NORC-SSPs) and key health care providers serving their communities.
Information from a national organization dedicated to improving health and well-being of working Americans on creating well workplaces, including access to information, case studies, presentations, surveys, incentive campaign materials, news on legislation, and links to other helpful Web sites.
Workbook serves as aid for providers to use along with inpatients who are hyperglycemic.
National Diabetes Education Program document supports consistent diabetes messaging and a team approach to care.
