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.
Brief describes the importance of developing a business case for quality improvement and frames the business case around three areas: direct financial considerations, strategic considerations, and internal organizational considerations.
Faith-based outreach program for African-Americans by the National Institute of Health reinforces the importance of a healthy diet, with participants learning skills and receiving social support so as to make healthier food choices as well as other lifestyle changes for good health. Web site provides program guidance and access to materials for program implementation.
Set of national measures (e.g. average HbA1c, cardiac risk reduction measures, dental, foot, and eye exams in the previous year, smoking status, vaccinations, and screening) can be used to track diabetes and diabetes management.
Report provides guidelines for improving patient adherence to diabetes medications.
Resource provides access to publications, tips, tools, and other helpful information for community-building and organizational development, with content areas ranging from community-building and collaboration to organizational learning and evaluation.
Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) developed the Pay-for-Performance Purchasing Institute to assist states in developing provider incentive programs.
Toolkit developed by Medicaid managed care organization workgroup shares case studies of innovative approaches for identifying members of racial and ethnic subgroups, measuring gaps in care, and improving health care quality.
The Chronic Care Model is a framework for the health care system to improve the quality of care for chronic disease. The model focuses on community, health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems.
Colorado Physical Activity and Nutrition Program toolkit provides ideas and resources for worksite health promotion initiatives primarily for physical activity and nutrition.
National Business Group on Health toolkit contains downloadable and adaptable materials on health care quality, cost, and resources for consumers that employers, labor unions, and others can use to improve communication with employees about evidence-based quality health care.
