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New Diabetes Treatment Program Improves Health of Diabetes Patients and Their Families
Date:7/8/2010

ed with the initial success of this unique program in the region.”

The one-year-old comprehensive program started in North Chicago, where it will provide several hundred patients with diabetes treatment via access to a broad range of individualized care and personalized services to help them adapt their lifestyle to reduce the risks of diabetes.

“Communities like North Chicago face numerous health challenges – little access to healthy foods, inadequate access to healthcare, lack of nutrition education and unsafe areas that discourage outdoor physical activity,” said Irene T. Pierce, MSN, Executive Director of the Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center. “Residents can truly benefit from this kind of ground-breaking collaborative initiative that relies on the strengths of both NorthShore and the Lake County Health Department to address the growing incidence of diabetes and obesity.”

Be Well serves the community with a bi-lingual diabetes treatment program to meet the needs of the ethnically diverse population in North Chicago. It provides a continuum of care that addresses individual patient needs and impacts the lifestyle of their families, creating new health habits that will help avoid the generational recurrence of diabetes in their children and extended families.

The fully integrated diabetes treatment program offers patients consistent comprehensive NorthShore and LCHD/CHC physician visits, medication and testing supply assistance, self-management education, an exercise program, peer support, and nutrition support including a newly-launched onsite community garden at the North Chicago Communi
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