Joslyn Levy & Associates, LLC

Grant Status

Completed

Project Title

Evaluation of the NYSHealth Setting the Standard Initiative

Award Amount

$180,000

Location

New York, NY

Date Awarded

November 19, 2009

In November 2007, NYSHealth launched its Setting the Standard: Advancing Best Practices in Diabetes Management program (Setting the Standard) to identify and work with key organizations in spreading best practices for diabetes management. The Foundation made 12 grants totaling $3.4 million to organizations ranging from hospital systems to community-based organizations. In this project, Joslyn Levy & Associates will develop and conduct an evaluation to assess and document the outcomes and lessons learned of these 12 grants.

Specifically, Setting the Standard was designed to support health care providers in an effort to expand the capacity of health systems to spread and sustain best practices in diabetes care, like the Chronic Care Model; and inform policy to support these improvements. These organizations are located throughout New York State and serve populations that have been hardest hit by diabetes (Asian, Native American, African-American, and Latino communities), as well as populations with co-occurring conditions, such as mental illness. The evaluators will undertake the following activities: (1) assess and document the impact of the 12 funded programs in improving the clinical outcomes for people with diabetes; (2) determine the progress in implementing sustainable organizational (system-level) changes to establish and/or expand diabetes care management across the 12 organizations; and (3) identify the challenges and facilitators to the successful spread of programs.