The goal of the Crescent City Beacon Community (CCBC) is to improve control of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and asthma and smoking cessation and to reduce racial health disparities associated with these conditions. Specific CCBC goals are to:
Increase the number of chronically ill patients with blood pressure, sugar, and lipid control
Reduce duplicative testing
Reduce hospitalization and emergency department use rates for poor management of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and asthma
Increase the number of patients enrolled in smoking cessation programs
Ultimately, reduce the growth in health care costs across the Beacon Community
We thought it made sense to really build on both prevention of smoking, but also in helping people to quit. One common strategy is using quit lines. What we would like to explore doing is how we can loop back and integrate that quit line into our health information exchange system.
–Lisanne Brown, Ph.D., Crescent City Beacon Community
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