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Chronic Care Education Outreach Program
| Topics |
Aging
Health promotion and disease prevention
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| States served |
Arkansas
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| Description |
The consortium for the Chronic Care Education Outreach Program will expand an existing chronic illness self-management education program to focus on the elderly in Woodruff and Prairie counties in the Arkansas Delta region. The program will enhance the capacity of existing community agencies to respond to the needs of the increasing population with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. Collaboration between community partners will result in organized assessments, planning, and coordination of local resource agencies to cultivate a regional comprehensive continuum of care for people with chronic diseases.
Woodruff and Prairie counties, the target counties, have a combined population of 18,280. Seventeen percent of the population is older than 65 years. The Arkansas Department of Health reports that diabetes prevalence increases by age to an estimated 14.6 percent for those older than 65 and estimates that more than 450 residents older than 65 currently have diabetes. In addition, the rates of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and heart disease are higher in the target counties than in other counties in the state. Residents of Woodruff and Prairie counties live below 200 percent of the Federal poverty level, and the two counties are officially designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas and Medically Underserved Areas. Barriers to access of health services include a 45-minute drive to any kind of specialty care, and much of the population remains undiagnosed for diabetes or cardiovascular disease. |
| Services offered |
The program will use self-management interventions to reduce health disparities and increase access to recommended health care services for people living with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. It also will incorporate a chronic care model used by the Bureau of Primary Health Care and will provide services at long-term care facilities to enhance access by the elderly population. All activities will be coordinated with primary care services currently provided in the area. The program will focus on increased access to prevention, early detection, and treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases through the provision of a comprehensive self-management education class on these chronic illnesses.
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| Replication |
The consortium for the Chronic Care Education Outreach Program consists of White River Rural Health Center, Inc., the lead applicant; Woodruff County Nursing Home; Des Arc Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Baptist Health; and Arkansas Department of Health Diabetes Control Center. |
| Source |
Rural Health Outreach Grantee Directory, 2006
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| Contact person |
Steven F. Collier
White River Rural Health Center, Inc.
P.O. Box 497
Augusta, Arkansas 72006-0497
Phone: (870) 347-2534 Fax: (870) 347-2882
Email: steven.collier@wrrhc-ar.org |
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