Diabetes/Chronic Kidney Disease Learning Collaborative

The goals for the quality improvement project “Implementing Primary Care and Pharmacy Strategies to Improve Care for Patients with Diabetes” are to help primary care practices to improve the screening and treatment of patients with diabetes, and to detect diabetes-related eye and kidney disease earlier in patients.  

The October Diabetes Learning Collaborative meeting opened with a presentation on Diabetic Eye Disease; Identifying and Closing Care Gaps by Jad Osmanski, OD and Stephen M. Montaquila, O.D., F.A.A.O.. Practices participating in the Pharmacy led Diabetic Initiative, reported on their overall plans to improve screening rates for diabetic eye care, chronic kidney disease and glycemic control for patients with diabetes. They shared what they learned from their chart review exercise and next steps. Aggregated baseline and Q1 eye exam, kidney health evaluation and glycemic control data results were shared. Steve Kogut, PhD, MBA, RPh shared care-team survey results and preliminary APCD eye exam for patients with diabetes analysis with the group. The seven practices participating in this project are off to a great start. 

Funding for this project is provided by United Healthcare and RI Department of Health.