Programs and Services
Community-based Diabetes Self-Management Initiative |
A1C Registry | Diabetes Public Health Detailing Campaign
Community-based Diabetes Self-Management Initiative
For the community:
- • The Diabetes Prevention & Control Program
offers training to help people living with diabetes to better manage their
condition.
- • Self-management education is also offered to faith-based organizations, community centers, senior centers, unions, and worksites.
For health care providers:
- • The DPCP offers training in motivational interviewing, self-management support, and education on the clinical aspects of diabetes, including a case-based presentation for clinical sites.
For more information or to schedule a training, please contact Rosa Rosen at the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program.
A1C Registry
The New York City Board of Health recently required the reporting of hemoglobin A1C, a measure of blood sugar control over three months, by most clinical labs that report electronically to the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. This groundbreaking requirement, which is the first such population-based registry in the nation, has great potential to map the epidemic of diabetes in NYC and improve the quality of care and quality of life in New Yorkers with diabetes. The reporting requirement and surveillance became effective January 15, 2006. The NYC DOHMH is designing a pilot intervention to improve diabetes care and management using the registry for residents of the South Bronx, the neighborhood with the highest rate of diabetes in the city. High priority is being placed on securing and maintaining the confidentiality of those in the A1C Registry. Registry data is available only to the patient and their treating medical providers.
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- For more information about the A1C Registry or to opt out of any registry-related interventions, please click here.
Diabetes Public Health Detailing Campaign
The Diabetes Detailing Campaign, in which agency staff worked with primary health care providers in high risk neighborhoods (Central Brooklyn, the South Bronx, and East and Central Harlem), sought to improve patient care around diabetes. Public health detailing campaigns improve the quality of health care by educating health care providers and giving them kits containing clinical resources and patient education materials. Click here for the materials contained in the Diabetes Detailing Kit given to providers.
