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Community Linkages in Diabetes Care: It takes a village

Community Linkages in Diabetes Care: It takes a village. Doriane C. Miller, MD Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality University of Chicago Medical Center Merck Diabetes Collaborative Meeting September 29, 2009. Overview . Tasks of self-management

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Community Linkages in Diabetes Care: It takes a village

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  1. Community Linkages in Diabetes Care: It takes a village Doriane C. Miller, MD Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality University of Chicago Medical Center Merck Diabetes Collaborative Meeting September 29, 2009

  2. Overview • Tasks of self-management • Context: Chronic Care Model • Promising Models • Take-home tips • Evidence-based Resources

  3. Tasks of diabetes self-management • Taking medicine • Measuring blood sugar • Healthy diet • Physical activity • Managing stress and negative emotion • ENJOYING LIFE

  4. Delivery System Design • Define roles and distribute tasks among team members • Use planned interactions to support evidence-based care • Provide clinical case management services for complex patients • Ensure regular follow-up by the care team • Give care that patients understand and that fits with their cultural background

  5. Decision Support • Embed evidence-based guidelines into daily clinical practice • Share evidence-based guidelines and information with patients to encourage their participation • Use proven provider education methods • Integrate specialist expertise and primary care

  6. Self-Management Support • Emphasize the patient's central role in managing their health • Use effective self-management support strategies that include assessment, goal-setting, action planning, problem-solving and follow-up • Organize internal and community resources to provide ongoing self-management support to patients

  7. Clinical Information Systems • Provide timely reminders for providers and patients • Identify relevant subpopulations for proactive care • Facilitate individual patient care planning • Share information with patients and providers to coordinate care • Monitor performance of practice team and care system

  8. Health Care Organization • Visibly support improvement at all levels of the organization, beginning with the senior leader • Promote effective improvement strategies aimed at comprehensive system change • Encourage open and systematic handling of errors and quality problems to improve care • Provide incentives based on quality of care • Develop agreements that facilitate care coordination within and across organizations

  9. Community Resources • Encourage patients to participate in effective community programs • Form partnerships with community organizations to support and develop interventions that fill gaps in needed services • Advocate for policies to improve patient care

  10. Evidence-based resources • www.diabetesinitiative.org • www.newhealthpartnerships.org • www.improvingchroniccare.org • AJPH Sept 2005 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health: Detroit Partnership

  11. Promising Models • Center for African American Health, Denver CO: faith and health ministries collaboration with community health center • Open Door Health Center, Homestead FL: community health outreach workers recruited from current patients • Humboldt-Del Norte IPA, Arcata CA: volunteer peer support core, used existing breast cancer support network platform

  12. Promising Models • Fargo Health Center, Fargo, ND: web-based diabetes support group and blog, portal available to patients and providers • REACH Detroit Partnership: trained Family Health Advocates deliver tested curriculum through group meetings

  13. BUT HOW

  14. Community Resources • Encourage patients to participate in effective community programs • Form partnerships with community organizations to support and develop interventions that fill gaps in needed services • Advocate for policies to improve patient care

  15. Take Home Tips • Designated Driver • Designated Navigator • Infrastructure/System • Know your patient population • Know your internal/external community • Use volunteers • Be brave and creative

  16. Doriane C. Miller, MDDirector, Center for Community Health and Vitality University of Chicago Medical Center 773-702-2739 doriane.miller@uchospitals.edu

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