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Salud Para Su Corazon - Health for your Heart transisions into a new name Bienestar De Por Vida - Wellness for a Lifetime. Mary Lanning HealthCare Foundation - Diabetes Department and South Heartland District Health Department is a joint effort for ongoing medical and program support to meet the long-term Diabetes Disease management needs of the Hispanic population via quality medical services, health education, and health learning environment. Clients include men, women, young adults and the elderly. Initially, the first program began with 44 people nearly five years ago and now evolved to approximately 150. The vision of this program is to provide a continued solid program focusing on total individual and family wellness measured by lower BMI results, lower AIC blood sugar lab results, consistent exercise, health eating, stress management, self disease management, client program documentation and access to ongoing health information. Overall, this health project has improved the health care of the minority community dealing with Diabetes and other health risk factors through education, support groups, exercise tracking via YMCA memberships, direct access to doctors and healthcare system, assistance with medication and testing supplies, meeting with the nutritionist and in-home visits.
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