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Patients in need get free pass for YMCA diabetes-prevention help

A federally qualified health center in Louisiana allows patients to participate in a Diabetes Prevention Program at the YMCA for free. Here’s how it works.

Prevention & Wellness
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In chronic disease fight, help comes from new care team member

The community health worker’s role extends beyond the clinic to educate patients with prediabetes, hypertension and other chronic conditions.

Prevention & Wellness
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How to make the organizational case for a diabetes prevention program

To provide a lifestyle-change program for people with prediabetes, leaders presented supporting data to key organizational stakeholders. This is how numbers helped.

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Health System Spotlight
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Physician buy-in key to boosting patients' prevention efforts

Physician endorsement is critical to engaging patients with prediabetes in lifestyle-change programs. Learn how this health system helped doctors spread the word.

Prevention & Wellness
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Online demos help bring diabetes prevention programs to life

Webinar series guides primary care clinics to create CDC-recognized lifestyle-change programs proven to effectively treat prediabetes.

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Prediabetes treatment takes team effort to change lifestyles

To implement a successful type 2 diabetes prevention program, a health system turned to an all-star team of health care staff. Find out more.

Prevention & Wellness
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4 ways a clinic cut poorly controlled diabetes by a third

A multi-dimensional approach to diabetes management allowed this practice to improve control. Here is how.

Chronic Diseases
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How to identify patients with undetected prediabetes

One in three U.S. adults has prediabetes and only 10 percent know they have it. To incorporate prediabetes screening and identification into routine patient workflows, follow this toolkit.

Prevention & Wellness
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How IT can help physicians build relationships in diabetes fight

Technology can help link patients with prediabetes to local lifestyle-change programs, but the bonds between the referring physicians and the community organizations that run the programs cannot be maintained by electronic communication and data-sharing alone. 

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