Healthy Memphis Common Table
Diabetes For Life
Memphis Team
Mae Clayton, Debra Bartelli, Renee Frazier, Debra Kilpatrick (BET Foundation), Patria Johnson, and Armika Busby
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 of HMCT will be to address five 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; increasing access to and utilization of programs and resources to promote and maintain patient weight loss, including diet and nutritional counseling, peer support groups and access to various exercise options, based on patient preferences and needs; offering case management support for people with diabetes and their families to help them gain access to and better utilize health resources as well as adopt and maintain effective disease self-management and lifestyle changes; fostering ongoing implementation of standard quality management and clinical improvement procedures to ensure that all patients at participating community health centers receive appropriate screening and treatments for diabetes and related chronic illnesses; and enhancing provider cultural competency and communications training, as well as related patient feedback processes, to measure effectiveness and appropriateness of provider communication. Memphis Healthy Churches (MHC) will serve as the primary resource for community outreach to the target population. MHC includes 100 member churches and provides an important venue for addressing health care disparities at the community level. MHC offers training to lay volunteers at participating churches to provide health education and linkages to screening services for congregation members at increased risk of developing diabetes and related chronic illnesses.
The Memphis "Diabetes for Life" (DFL) project was officially launched on August 19, 2009
Renee Frazier, Debra Bartelli, Mae Clayton, Patria Johnson, Debra Kilpatrick (BET Foundation) and Armika Busby
Affiliated Sites:
Healthy Memphis Common Table
http://www.healthymemphis.org/
For more information on Healthy Memphis Common Table and Diabetes For Life, please contact Patria Johnson at patria.johnson@christchs.org