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Delta Community Partners in Care Project: A demonstration project developed to manage the care of hypertensive and diabetic patients in the Mississippi Delta.
(Archived Project)
Investigator (PI): Keys, Lela
Performing Organization (PO): (Current): University of Mississippi, School of Pharmacy, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, Rural Health Research
Supporting Agency (SA): W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Initial Year: 1996
Final Year: 1998
Award Type: Grant
Number of Subjects: Potentially 1000 (community base) patients
Population Base: Five Mississippi Delta counties; Bolivar, Coahama, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tunica
Study Population: Hypertensive and diabetics -- persons ages 21-64; income at or below 100% poverty
Abstract: In 1995 W.K. Kellogg Foundation funded a community based health initiative in the Mississippi Delta designed to manage the care of chronic hypertensive and diabetic individuals in a rural setting. The project's mission is to provide case management and outreach to the uninsured and Medicaid population, identify the role of the primary care provider, decrease fragmentation in service delivery and empower people to improve the circumstance of their own health. Project model will provide for on-going health care management early in the stages of illness.
MeSH Terms:
  • Case Management /*organization & administration
  • Community Health Services /*organization & administration
  • Diabetes Mellitus /*therapy
  • Humans
  • Hypertension /*therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medically Uninsured
  • Mississippi
  • Rural Health Services /*organization & administration
  • Rural Population
Keywords:
  • research support, non-U.S. Gov't
Country: United States
State: Mississippi
Zip Code: 38614
UI: 96201060
Project Status: Archived