the improvement of diabetes care and prevention in a collaborative, synergistic manner. related to diabetes. The Diabetes Summit Partners will “make a …
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SLV Diabetes Summit Partners Project Information Sheet
Project Overview
The Diabetes Summit Partners formed when local health care providers and community health workers sought to address the improvement of diabetes care and prevention in a collaborative, synergistic manner The Partners states their mission as follows: The Diabetes Summit Partners is a group of community organizations and individuals in the San Luis Valley dedicated to preventing or delaying the onset of diabetes, improving diabetes care, and helping prevent complications related to diabetes The Partners vision on how to achieve this mission is through using a collaborative, inclusive process that is action oriented The Diabetes Summit Partners will make a positive difference for those affected by diabetes through improvement of care, treatment, education, and prevention in the San Luis Valley The RMPRC is an active member of the Partners, and is studying the process as part of the Sustainable Community Academic Partnership Project Funding is from donations SLV Rural Healthcare Network, SLV Regional Medical Center, RMPRC, SLV Cooperative Extension
Guiding values /
principles
Commitment to our mission is energized by passion, optimism, and Intention We value innovation in seeking creative, coordinated, multidisciplinary solutions to improve diabetes prevention and care Recognizing peoples time demands, we seek to engage people through a collaborative process that is thoughtful, efficient, and fun We strive for excellence /quality using methods that are objective, evidence-based, and relevant to our community Adapted from the SLV Diabetes Summit Partners Mission /Vision statement, March 10, 2004
Why? A description of the health problem
Diabetes is a long-standing health problem in the San Luis Valley that is commanding ever-expanding resources in an environment of increasingly scarce resources for treatment and management Diabetes Summit Partners seeks to enhance diabetes care, management, and prevention through a collaborative engagement with the community that identifies areas of strength and weakness, seeking to enhance the first and overcome the second
Benefits of participation
Participation will result in a community based, community developed strategy to enhance diabetes care and management in the SLV
Time line
Because the
Partners group is not grant funded, the process is not driven by grant deadlines Partners have been in the process of formalizing their organizational structure and seeking ways financial and non-financial resources to support that structure To date the Diabetes Summit Partners have conducted two summits on diabetes care and management in the Valley 2002, 2003, with the third Summit taking place November 2004 They have formalized their structure, and clarified their mission and goals Planning for their primary activity began in summer 2004 They have begun a comprehensive planning process using a graphic facilitation process to identify what is in relation to diabetes management with the goal of identifying a where to scenario Planning involves how to bridge the what is to the where to
Partners membership
Molly-Jayne Bangert, Mary Ellen Fleming, Chris Hettinger-Hunt, Russ Johnson, Al Kelly, Jean Kubeck, Terry Uyeki, Ricardo Velasquez For more information about this project, please contact Terry Uykei 719-589-5801 terryu@amigonet
Intervention Core
Last updated 03-17-05 by ESB Prepared by John Brett
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