News & Announcements
Celebrating a New Diabetes Prevention Partnership
Please help us welcome and support this new partnership in Minnesota!
- CDC, YMCA-USA and United Health Group (UHG) announced a major partnership to combat diabetes through prevention programs by offering and reimbursing for the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle change program. View Webcast of April 14 key note speakers at http://preventtype2diabetes.nologyinteractive.com
- UHG’s Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance programs will be introduced first in Minneapolis and St. Paul YMCAs for members of self-insured employer- health plans purchased from Medica. Later the program will be expanded nation wide. http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/newsroom/news.aspx?id=199e50a5-557b-4353-b96d-ff060fba10fc
- The YMCA of Metropolitan Minneapolis and YMCA of Greater Saint Paul that operate 22 YMCAs in the great Twin Cities metro and western Wisconsin will offer this group, 16 week DPP program. http://www.ymcatwincities.org/index.asp?pageID=28&newsID=1293&branchID
- View the New York Times article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/health/14diabetes.html?ref=business
- We are honored that this new national program is based in part on the work of the ‘I CAN Prevent Diabetes Program’ in Minnesota, first funded by CDC Steps to A Healthier Minnesota and Diabetes Prevention grants, and modeled after the Plan4Ward YMCA program in Indiana.
- We expect this new partnership will support the development of a sustainable, structured program with the national support of Y-USA ,UHG and the CDC
More than 1 in 3 adults and 1 in 6 youth in Minnesota have pre-diabetes or diabetes. http://www.health.state.mn.us/diabetes/diabetesinminnesota/factsheet.html
I CAN Prevent Diabetes programs will continue to be offered in non-metro and various non-Y affiliated community sites in the metro area. DPP programs are also offered at the Indian Health Board in Minneapolis and some tribes throughout Minnesota that are funded by the Special Diabetes Program for Indians Diabetes Prevention Demonstration Project grant from Indian Health Service. For about a list of program locations, go to http://www.icanpreventdiabetes.org/downloads/MN2010ICANPDPrograms021010.pdf