The Diabetes Equity Project (Dallas, Texas)

http://alliancefordiabetes.org/

"Working to Improve Diabetes Care" - Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes
The Merck Company Foundation supports an initiative working with community-based organizations across the United States to help improve the quality of care for people with diabetes, particularly in underserved communities.

The Diabetes Equity Project (DEP) will leverage the extensive community partnership among Baylor Health Care System (BHCS), the BHCS Office of Health Equity, the Health Texas Provider Network Office of Community Health Improvement, Project Access Dallas, Southern Sector Health Initiative and Dallas-area charitable clinics to reduce disparities in diabetes care for underserved people with diabetes in Dallas County, Texas. As a not-for-profit health care provider in north Texas, Baylor Health Care System has made a system-wide commitment to improving equity in health care access, health care delivery and health outcomes. This commitment is integrated with its overall quality improvement strategy to providing STEEEP care (care that is Safe, Timely, Effective, Equitable, Efficient and Patient-centered). The Diabetes Equity Project extends the BHCS commitment to health equity by working to improve both access to and quality of care delivered to low-income, minority, uninsured and underserved people with diabetes who reside in Dallas County, Texas. The DEP will utilize a multi-faceted approach that includes interventions at the physician, patient and system levels to improve diabetes health equity in Dallas County. Cross-cultural competency education programs will be delivered through continuing medical education (CME) events targeted at primary care physicians who volunteer to care for uninsured people with diabetes. The implementation of an electronic diabetes registry will foster improved multidisciplinary communication among health care providers in the DEP as well as assist in evaluating the health outcomes of patients enrolled in the program.


About The Merck Company Foundation
The Merck Company Foundation is a U.S.-based, private charitable foundation. Established in 1957 by healthcare leader Merck, the Foundation is funded entirely by the company and is Merck's chief source
of funding support to qualified non-profit, charitable organizations. Since its inception, The Merck Company Foundation has contributed more than $600 million to support important initiatives that address societal needs and are consistent with Merck's overall mission to help the world be well. For more information, visit http://www.merckcompanyfoundation.org

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