Parkland receives Award for Innovation in Continuing Professional Development
Diabetes INSIDE project bridges ‘knowing-doing’ gap
Parkland Health & Hospital System received the Award for Innovation in Continuing Professional Development from the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. Parkland’s Global Diabetes Program collaborated with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Intelligent Medical Decisions, Inc. (iMD) in a 12-month quality improvement initiative called Diabetes INSIDE to improve diabetes care processes and patient outcomes. The Alliance is a community of professionals dedicated to accelerating excellence in healthcare performance through education, advocacy and collaboration.
“The overall goal of Diabetes INSIDE is to improve glycemic control in populations of patients with Type 2 diabetes through a series of structured interventions targeting the entire health system and focusing on insulin initiation and management,” said Luigi Meneghini, MD, MBA, Executive Director of the Global Diabetes Program at Parkland and Professor, Division of Endocrinology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
“Diabetes is one of the most significant healthcare challenges facing the nation and in Texas the incidence of the disease is at even higher levels than in other parts of the country,” said Noel Santini, MD, Senior Medical Director, Ambulatory Services at Parkland. “Our collaboration with the ADA and iMD underscores the importance of Parkland’s commitment to combating a serious chronic disease affecting so many people in Dallas County.”
More than 50,000 Parkland patients are currently diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and amputations (not caused by trauma) in the U.S.
In 2013, Parkland launched the Global Diabetes Program (GDP) with the help of funding provided by the state’s 1115 waiver, in collaboration with Parkland’s Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) health centers and the Division of Endocrinology at UT Southwestern.
“Using a patient-centered and multidisciplinary approach, the GDP focuses a team of physicians, nurses, psychologists, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers and financial experts to rotate around the patient, instead of making the patient adjust to the needs of the care providers,” stated Kellie Rodriguez, MSN, MBA, CDE, Director of Diabetes Education and Community Engagement for the GDP. “GDP’s goal is to address social, psychological, financial and medical barriers that get in the way of patients receiving the care they need.”
For more information about the Global Diabetes Program at Parkland, please call 214.590.7219. For more information about the American Diabetes Association, visit www.diabetes.org. To learn more about the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, visit www.acehp.org.
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