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Palmetto AccessNET
Palmetto Project 
1031 Chuck Dawley Blvd, Suite 5
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 29464
Project Director: Laura S. Morris
The Palmetto Project is a 501(c)(3) organization, established in 1984 by business leaders in South Carolina to implement innovative solutions to the state's most pressing social and economic problems.
Palmette AccessNET, utilizing the Palmetto Project's existing provider consortium and patient navigator network, will implement new programming to
- reduce health disparities by increasing enrollment of uninsured minorities with risk factors for chronic disease in patient navigation, including assignment to medical homes and participation in pharmaceutical assistance programs;
- expand navigation services into two rural counties with near epidemic rates of cardiovascular disease and diabetes among its minority population;
- create a replicable model of effective interaction between a health care consortium with patient navigator services and a community-based health education and disease prevention program targeted to minorities at greatest risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes;
- document improved clinical indicators for navigated patients with diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease; and
- document reductions in costs to hospital emergency department and in-patient visits through improved access and care coordination, combined with community-based programming in health education, disease prevention and self-management.
Palmetto AccessNET will focus on five coastal counties with sizeable minority populations with documented risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
The project will
- fully engage at-risk communities in health education andchronic disease prevention,
- provide care coordination and patient navigation to uninsured minorities with risk factors for CVD and diabetes,
- support local collaborations among providers and at-risk populations to reduce barriers to care, and
- create a replicable program model.
Nowhere is there as compelling a need for immediate, dramatic intervention to reduce health disparities.
Page last updated: October 8, 2008
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