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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.
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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