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Mount Desert Island Hospital Community Health Outreach Project

Mount Desert Island Hospital Community Health Outreach Project 3 rd Annual CVH & Diabetes Program Stakeholders Meeting May 1, 2013 Deborah Turner, Elise O’Neil and Donna Wiegle. Overview.

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Mount Desert Island Hospital Community Health Outreach Project

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  1. Mount Desert Island Hospital Community Health Outreach Project 3rd Annual CVH & Diabetes Program Stakeholders Meeting May 1, 2013 Deborah Turner, Elise O’Neil and Donna Wiegle

  2. Overview • In May 2012, MDI Hospital received a three year grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand outreach and services to people with Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. • The grant brings together a consortium of 7 community organizations to promote better coordination of diabetes education and care for people living in the MDI Hospital service area. • Volunteer Community Health Workers (CHW) are added to extend the efforts of the primary care team.

  3. Key Goals • Improve the health status of our population • Diabetics - regular testing & improve A1C values • Prediabetics - educate to risks & activate to change lifestyle to reduce blood glucose levels • Demonstrate the value of CHWs • Create a sustainable consortium of community partner organizations to facilitate the integrated delivery of evidence-based diabetes services

  4. Activities and Services • Building consortium of organizations • Started to recruit, train and deploy CHWs • Adopted and implementing evidence-based interventions • Implementing the Diabetes Prevention Program in community-based locations • Delivering proactive, targeted care management via telephone and telemedicine

  5. What is the Role of Diabetes Community Health Workers? • CHWs are individuals who represent their ethnic, cultural, or geographic communities and provide a link between these communities and health care providers. • CHWs are well positioned to engage the people in their community to prevent diabetes and its complications through education, lifestyle change, self-management and social support. AADE Position Paper, Community Health Workers in Diabetes Management and Prevention, September 2011 “

  6. Key Elements for Community Engagement

  7. In Their Own Words Voices from the Island …

  8. Key Contacts • Deb Turner, MSW, MBA, Project Manager • deb.turner@mdihospital.org • 207-460-2581 • Elise O’Neil, RN Care Manager • elise.oneil@mdihospital.org • Donna Wiegle, Community Health Worker • donna@swansisland.org

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