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Project HOPE, Governor Barbour and Delta Health Alliance
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour invited Project HOPE President and CEO, John P. Howe, III, MD, to return to the state June 27-28, and to bring with him a larger delegation of representatives from the private sector, as an attempt to identify opportunities for collaborative efforts to improve the health of the 400,000 citizens living and [...]
Project HOPE tours Good Samaritan Health Center and meets with Gov Barbour
This is a part of an invitation from Gov Barbour, who wanted to find ways to furthers collaborate health program here int eh Mississippi Delta.
Southern Remedy: Mississippi’s Big Problem Video Part 1
Southern Remedy: Mississippi’s Big Problem focuses on the state’s obesity epidemic and attempts to change Mississippi’s poor bill of health. Southern Remedy sets out to modify the way Mississippians take care of themselves, using real-life stories and methods that anyone can use to lose weight. Dr. Rick DeShazo and his team traveled across the state [...]
Health in the Delta Show Promise, But Needs are Still Great
Posted By: John P. Howe, III, M.D. on January 24, 2011 Labels: United States It is appropriate that it was Health Awareness Day in Mississippi, as the HOPE team began our visits to several of the health programs administered by the Delta Health Alliance (DHA.) Our day started out at the DHA eICU Center at [...]
Beacon Communities Improve Diabetes Care
Right now, one in ten U.S. adults has diabetes. If trends keep heading the way CDC expects, that figure will be one in three adults by 2050.
Health IT will be extremely beneficial for modernizing health care communications between doctors, nurses, and patients, and will disproportionately benefit patients with diabetes.
Diabetics see primary care physicians for overall management of the disease. They see ophthalmologists for necessary eye exams and podiatrists for necessary foot exams – both to avoid costly and invasive complications that can arise without careful management of the disease. Patients with diabetes also frequent pharmacies, see other specialists, and occasionally end up in the hospital
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