Healing diabetes: a program of the sacramento native american health center to treat and prevent diabetes among american indian/ alaska native adults and youth in sacramento county. - the sacramento…

Healing diabetes: a program of the sacramento native american health center to treat and prevent diabetes among american indian/ alaska native adults and youth in sacramento county. - the sacramento native american health center (SNAHC) is committed to an integrated, holistic approach to countering type 1 and type 2 diabetes among our most at-risk youth and adult native patients. SNAHC currently serves 738 american indian/alaska native (AI/an) patients, of which 8.5% are currently diagnosed with diabetes. Many of our patients and over half of our services area are low income residents falling under 200% of the federal poverty level while more than 1 in 4 reside in designated food deserts. The diabetes care team at SNAHC is an interdepartmental team of medical, home visitation, and diabetes professionals who focus on this chronic illness. SNAHC will work within our departments to focus on glycemic control throughout 2023 by training our patients on the use of continuous glucose monitors (CGM), training staff who will be responsible for the CGM program, conducting ongoing telephonic and in-person visits with patients to review CGM data, and performing routine A1C testing to monitor patients' glycemic control. Additionally, SNAHC will continue to offer popular workshops like our diabetes living well classes and talking circles to help patients connect to other AI/an diabetic patients, create empowering action plans, and gain additional health resources and services to heal diabetes.