Chronic Care Corner

Colorectal Cancer:

  • Explore Findings from a New Study on Colorectal Cancer Screening and Outcomes from the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) here

  • ACS Webinar Slides & Recording: Cancer Prevention and Screening for Community Health Centers here 

  • 2025 National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Webcast Slides & Recording here

Cardiovascular Health & Food as Medicine:

  • Read about how medically tailored meal programs could yield significant health care savings across 49 US states here

  • Listen to how medically tailored meals and cutting-edge research are proving that the right food can prevent disease, improve outcomes, and lower healthcare costs here 

Hypertension: 

Modifiable Lifestyle Risk Factor Policy & Procedure Template

  • This comprehensive template is designed to help translate hypertension science into practice in outpatient health care settings. It addresses data collection, assessment, and interventions for patients with modifiable risk factors that have strong evidence to reduce blood pressure. It also includes training for health care teams and an inventory of available resources for education, intervention, and referral to consistently incorporate these practices into care. 

SMBP Quick Start Guide

  • Care teams can use this resource to quickly access information about self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring and the tools and resources available to help make impactful change. 

Optimizing Hypertension Strategies: Using Data to Drive Improvement

  • This learning series from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) combines evidence-based interventions with practical implementation approaches that enhance health equity and prepare health centers for value-based care. The series will build your capacity to identify and deploy implementation strategies for your unique patient population and environment. 

Heritage Diets: Adapting Nutrition Recommendations Across Cultures

  • Identify key health-promoting foods that are common across multiple cultural dietary traditions and how the narrow demographic focus of nutrition research can hinder practical application in diverse patient populations. 

Diabetes: 

  1. Metformin Treatment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3A, 3B, or 4

  2. National Kidney Foundation eGFR Calculator

  3. Facilitating Positive Health Behaviors and Well-being to Improve Health Outcomes: Standards of Care in Diabetes - 2024

  4. Strategies and Factors Associated with Top Performance in Primary Care for Diabetes

  5. Diabetes Management in Chronic Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes

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