Diabetes & Obesity

Project Mission The Diabetes Transformation Project is designed to create and drive changes within the private and public sector that will lead to better health at lower cost for people with diabetes.

Laura Linn Project Director

• Reduce the incidence of diabetes and obesity as well as the complications and death rate associated with both conditions through consistent implementation of best practices.
• Reduce disparities in health in racial and ethnic populations disproportionately impacted by diabetes and obesity. Improve public awareness and patient understanding of diabetes and its control.
• Promote better self-management among those with diabetes and obese individuals.
• Accelerate the migration from paper to electronic record keeping so that access and accuracy of information will be improved.
• Improve health care providers' understanding of diabetes and its control and rapid adoption of proven best practices.
• Promote policies that increase prevention and improve the quality of and access to diabetes care.

The majority of CHT's diabetes efforts are occurring in the State of Georgia. Read about the Healthy Georgia Diabetes and Obesity Project and Diabetes Transformation Activities.