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The Center for Diabetes Care

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Program Name or Degree Name, Walden University

FM 010: STRATEGIC PLANNING

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JANUARY, 2020

Introduction

The center is created as a platform to solve diabetes and diabetes related complications in Jefferson County.

Latino. African-American and Hispanic population are the most affected (Bluml, Watson, Skelton, Manolakis & Brock, 2014).

The center will conduct its activities alongside Western Hospital management.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Act is incorporate in the establishment of the center as the main donor.

Statistics from various researches

The prevalence rate of diabetes in Jefferson County is eight percent.

The prevalence rate of diabetes among African-American, Latino and Hispanic communities is at fourteen percent.

On the other hand, seventy-one percent of the population in Lowertown is suffering from diabetes.

Thirty-nine percent of affected population in Lowertown are Hispanic elderly above sixty-five years.

Reasons for high prevalence rate

Lack of physical exercise (Weintraub, Herrmann, Smith, Backonja & Cole, 2009).

Over reliance on fast-moving food with high content of sugar level.

Lack of appropriate education on how to prevent diabetes.

Inability to access care services among the minority due to financial challenges.

Lack of government intervention to support the most vulnerable in the society.

Financial projection during the 1st year of operation

INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM Chelius, L., Hook, J., & Rodriguez, M. (2010). Financial analysis of Open-Door Community Health Centers’ telehealth experience. Retrieved from http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/PDF%20O/PDF%20OpenDoorFinancialAnalysis.pdf

Unmet needs

Lack of effective communication between the facility and the patients.

Lack of effective campaign measures to create diabetes awareness to the community.

The Western Hospital has fail to incorporate the political class in solving diabetes challenges.

Lack of digitalized systems to monitor diabetes in Jefferson County.

Measures to ensure positive change

Offering medical services using the language best understood by the client.

Application of the Electronic Health Record for effective monitoring of patients’ data.

Comprehensive training for permanent employed professional in the center.

Offering free diabetes services for less fortunate population in Jefferson County.

Enhancing culture competency

Healthcare professionals should avoid racial discrimination during care services (Weintraub, Wolfe, Barohn, Cole, Parry, Hayat & Magnetic Research Group, 2003).

Generating more funds by regulation salary payments in order to sustain the program for sake of minorities.

Establishment of training programs for both the healthcare professional and the clients on how to prevent and cure diabetes across the ethnicities.

Comply with ethical standards when provide care based on HIPAA standards.

How to attain financial sustainability

Training only the permanent employees to avoid cost associated with training all the employees.

Ensuring digital documentations of financial statements to timely identify and fix fund embezzlement crisis.

Utilize the available funds donated by financiers such as PPACA.

To encourage the financial stable patients to be treatment charges as required.

How to measure the success

Incompliance with the Affordable Care Act we shall conduct satisfaction based research for every three years.

We shall ascertain whether there is financial progression for every year.

We shall ascertain the level of the donor willingness to support the program. The more success the project is, the more willing the donor are to offer their grants.

The level of success of the project will be determined by whether the diabetes cases are increasing or decreasing.

Conclusion

The project will promote diabetes awareness among the Hispanic community which the most affected.

The project will ensure reduction of diabetes for every number of individuals diagnosed.

The project will ensure reduction of mortality rate among the Hispanic.

The center will reduce racial discrimination in the healthcare system

References

Weintraub, M. I., Herrmann, D. N., Smith, A. G., Backonja, M. M., & Cole, S. P. (2009). Pulsed electromagnetic fields to reduce diabetic neuropathic pain and stimulate neuronal repair: a randomized controlled trial. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 90(7), 1102-1109.

Bluml, B. M., Watson, L. L., Skelton, J. B., Manolakis, P. G., & Brock, K. A. (2014). Improving outcomes for diverse populations disproportionately affected by diabetes: Final results of Project IMPACT: Diabetes. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 54(5), 477-485.

Weintraub, M. I., Wolfe, G. I., Barohn, R. A., Cole, S. P., Parry, G. J., Hayat, G., ... & Magnetic Research Group. (2003). Static magnetic field therapy for symptomatic diabetic neuropathy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 84(5), 736-746.