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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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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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How to give good nutrition advice when time is short

For patients with prediabetes and other conditions, lifestyle changes are key to improving their health. This is how physicians can help given the limited time they have with patients.

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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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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.

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AMA applauds efforts in NC to reach residents with prediabetes

New $5 million investment by BCBS of North Carolina to fund partnership between NC State University and NC Division of Public Health aimed at type 2 diabetes.

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