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Diabetes Projects
National Diabetes CollaborativeThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to improve diabetes care within federally funded health centers. This National Diabetes Collaborative's purpose is to improve diabetes performance measures through improved health care delivery systems and to increase access and decrease health disparities among medically underserved populations.
The Improvement Model of the National Diabetes Collaborative has these parts:
Results to date indicate the success of this collaborative model in improving the A1C blood test rates among the health centers' diabetes populations.
The BPHC is expanding the focus of the Collaborative to include more chronic conditions. A key issue among all national partners is how to maintain the momentum and sustain the improvements over time. CDC and the DPCPs have an opportunity to build on the diabetes-specific work of the Collaborative within the states to develop, support, and influence health systems that serve populations disproportionately burdened by diabetes. CDC will continue to partner with the BPHC to strengthen the capacity of the DPCPs to support federally funded health centers to sustain and spread diabetes improvements. CDC will focus on strengthening state-level infrastructures to support the improvement work of health centers consistent with the national Health Disparities Collaborative. The capacity-building plan will refine the public health-specific National Diabetes Collaborative curriculum developed in 2001, and add new training tools, formats, and opportunities for DPCPs and their partners. Areas of focus for DPCP capacity-building include the following:
Health Disparities National Congress The Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care and Institute for Healthcare Improvement* are pleased to announce the Health Disparities National Congress on September 11-13, 2003. CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation is one of the national partners of the Health Disparities Collaborative along with its network of state-based diabetes prevention and control programs. The congress will showcase the work of a network of health centers that are trying to improve health outcomes nationally for medically underserved and underinsured Americans with chronic diseases including asthma, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression. For more information, please visit Health Disparities Collaborative at www.healthdisparities.net*. For more information, call the CDC Diabetes Inquiry Line toll free 1-800-CDC-INFO * Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.
Page last reviewed: July 12, 2007
Page last modified: December 20, 2005 Content Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division of Diabetes Translation |