Baylor Health Care System
The Diabetes Equity Project
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.
Dallas County Alliance Team
Adam Chabira, Christine Snead, James Walton
Affiliated Sites:
Irving Interfaith Clinic
http://www.irvinginterfaithclinic.org/
Healing Hands Ministries
http://web.mac.com/wingfieldm/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
Hope Clinic
http://hopeclinic-garland.org/
For more information on the Diabetes Equity Project, please contact Christine Snead at Christine.Snead@baylorhealth.edu