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Delta Community Partners in Care
| Topics |
Health promotion and disease prevention
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| States served |
Mississippi
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| Description |
Delta Community Partners in Care (DCPIC) is a coalition of partners serving a rural area in the Mississippi Delta region of northwest Mississippi.
This region is an underserved area for health care, where 30 percent of the population lives below poverty. Its target population is the uninsured or underinsured between the ages of 21 and 64 who have a diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension, or both.
DCPIC attempts to reduce the barriers affecting its target population by providing outreach case management services. |
| Services offered |
DCPIC uses a community-based case management model to improve the health status and risk factors in its target population.
Caseworks are trained social workers, nurses, and lay health workers who work directly with patients who have a diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension, or both. The caseworks use a holistic approach and include support groups and education. |
| Results |
Of the clients enrolled at the time the data was collected:
emergency room utilization decreased significantly
the number of outpatient visits decreased
of the patients hospitalized, the number of nights stayed decreased
the enrollees' knowledge of both hypertension and diabetes increased significantly, corresponding with an increase of the patients' ability to control their own blood pressure and blood sugar.
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| Source |
Lela Keys, Delta Community Partners in Care
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| Contact person |
Lela Keys
Delta Community Partners in Care
P.O. Box 1218
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-624-3484
lbkeys2@bellsouth.net |
| Date added |
January 2, 2008 |
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