Partnering to Battle Diabetes

The Southern University Ag Center partnered with Louisiana Health Care Review (LHCR) to hold a workshop entitled “Diabetes Empowerment Education Program.” This “Train the Trainer” event which focused on diabetes prevention and intervention was held January 15, attracting more than 20 participants.

Training modules included: recognizing the human body, risk factors in diabetes, understanding diabetes, monitoring the body, managing diabetes through nutrition, complications of diabetes, physical activity: benefits and challenges, medications and medical guidelines, and coping with diabetes.

At Louisiana Health Care Review, the mission is to improve the quality of health and health care by using information and collaborative relationships to enable change. They believe that better care begins with better care management. The team of health care professionals has developed solutions to significantly impact the quality of health care and to focus on performance measures for public reporting. They have developed partnerships with key stakeholders - beneficiaries, governments, providers and the communities - to make health care healthier in their service areas. LHCR’s impact has led to rapid and sustainable improvements in the quality of care, utilization and overall management of health care services.

The event was organized by Christopher Williams of Louisiana Health Care Review. For more information on Louisiana Health Care Review visit http://www.lhcr.org/