Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
Grant Status
Completed
Project Title
Chinatown Diabetes ACTION (Accelerating Collaboration To Improve Health Outcomes Now)
Award Amount
$230,000
Location
Manhattan
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Date Awarded
November 15, 2007
One in six Asian Americans in New York City has diabetes, and an additional 3,300 Chinese patients in New York City are at risk for diabetes. This project furthers the Center’s effort to implement the chronic care model by establishing a diabetes registry and piloting a culturally appropriate diabetes self-management program.
The Wang Center currently serves approximately 1,300 diabetic patients and has identified more than 2,000 patients with pre-diabetes. The Wang Center will improve diabetes management for this population by creating a culturally competent model of care incorporating the Chronic Care Model and electronic medical records (EMR). NYSHealth funding will support start-up costs for implementing comprehensive systems changes that will result in improved care and health outcomes for diabetic and pre-diabetic patients. Specifically, the Wang Center will: 1) establish a diabetes registry in its existing EMR and develop tools and protocols to better track and manage patients utilizing EMR; 2) pilot-test a diabetes self-management education program that makes use of bilingual group workshops and group visits; and 3) assess organizational readiness for meeting the American Diabetes Association’s national standards for diabetes self-management education, which will enable the program to be sustainable through reimbursement.