Health Systems Interventions
The SCDPCP Health Systems interventions are focused on Community Health Center's diabetes treatment and control activities across the state. The goals of these interventions are to improve diabetes care in office-based practices in medically undeserved areas of the state, and to increase diabetes self-management skills of patients who attend these primary care centers. Priority populations are minorities, the elderly, the uninsured and the underinsured.
The SCDPCP provides and/or offers up-to-date information on evidence-based diabetes prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and control in ongoing processes by means of training sessions, symposia, and mailings of provider and patient education materials.
Specifically, the following programs are offered or supported by the SCDPCP:
- Annual Evidence-Based Diabetes/Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Winter Symposium
- Annual Diabetes Symposium in Collaboration with the Diabetes Initiative of
South Carolina and other partners - Supports Diabetes Day activities and diabetes classes for patients at various CHCs throughout the year
The Community Health Centers are using the Chronic Disease Model and a quality improvement model to make changes and improvements in their health system organization, delivery system, decision support, information systems, community resources and patient self-management. Such improvements include the use of:
- Comprehensive diabetes care with planned diabetes visits
- Electronic patient databases
- New resources and variety of educational materials for patients
- Partnerships, diabetes educators, pharmacists, dietitians, eye care specialists, foot care specialists, dental care specialists, and others in the community
- Updated provider and staff education, materials, and tools
- Patient self-management training
- Improved patient reminder and recall systems
- Case management
- Diabetes support groups
- Spanish classes
- Mall Walking Club
- Chronic disease screening programs
- Community heath fairs
Click here (pdf) for a listing of the participating Community Health Centers in the state that are a part of the Diabetes Collaborative.
For additional information contact:
Yaw Boateng, MS, MPH, RD, CDE
Health Systems Coordinator
803-545-4470