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About the Alliance

Through grants to five organizations and a National Program Office (Noreen M. Clark, PhD, Director), the Merck Company Foundation supports comprehensive, multi-faceted, community-based programs that address the key factors to reduce disparities and improve health outcomes for people living with diabetes.

The Diabetes Alliance is working to improve communication between patients and health care providers. Effective communication among providers, patients and their family members is a critical component of efforts to promote optimal care outcomes, enhance prevention and management of diabetes and reduce disparities in care.

The Alliance efforts go beyond the clinical setting and are reaching people where they spend most of their time and make most of the decisions that affect their health, such as community settings and homes.

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Improving Diabetes Care and Outcomes on the South Side of Chicago

Improving Diabetes Care and Outcomes on the South Side of Chicago aims to reduce diabetes disparities in Chicago's South Side while taking into account the region's marketplace, socioeconomic challenges, and history of racial mistrust. The intervention incorporates culturally tailored patient activation, cultural competency training for clinicians, clinic redesign with patient advocates, nurse care management, and enhanced community partnerships and resources. The intervention will also increase the number of persons with diabetes from underserved populations who access comprehensive care.
Camden Citywide Diabetes Collaborative

The Camden Citywide Diabetes Collaborative seeks to fundamentally change how providers, office staff and community agencies in Camden care for city residents with diabetes by building an accessible, high-quality, coordinated and data-driven health care delivery system with a strong primary care base. The specific goals of the program are to improve the capacity of community-based, primary care practices to provide comprehensive, proactive care to their patients with diabetes; improve diabetes self-management for the residents of Camden; increase the capacity of medical day programs to care for their patients with diabetes; and improve coordination of care for people living with diabetes across the city of Camden.
The Diabetes Equity Project

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. 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.
Wind River Reservation

This program aims to create and support a comprehensive, community health system partnership to improve outcomes for American Indian people with diabetes and to reduce the substantial health disparities experienced by American Indians. The program encompasses individuals, providers and the overall health system to assist individuals in making lifestyle changes, increase the effectiveness of communications between health care providers and patients, and extend and increase resources through improved coordination and collaboration among diabetes services at the Tribal, federal and state levels.
Diabetes for Life

Healthy Memphis Common Table (HMCT) is a regional health improvement collaborative of community organizations, coalitions and individuals dedicated to improving the health of people in the greater Memphis area. The goals are to address issues related to health care disparities through its Diabetes for Life (DFL) initiative by implementing a proven, evidence-based chronic disease self-management program that can be offered to people with diabetes as part of a comprehensive approach to diabetes management and care.