MDSP Kicks-off in Macon, GA

On March 24, 2009 the MDSP was launched in Macon by City Councilors Nancy White, RN, Charles Jones, and Ed DeFore, before a crowd gathered in front of Macon City Hall. The event was held on the American Diabetes Association’s American Diabetes Alert Day, a one-day call-to-action for learning ...

MDSP Newsletter, January 2009

Volume 2,  Issue 1

MDSP Hosts Summit Meeting in Columbus, Georgia

Since July 2007, the MDSP has been operational in Columbus; now, after having successfully built an ongoing community-wide presence there, leaders of the MDSP have announced that Columbus will be used as a model and will expand into five other markets in Georgia:  Albany, Augusta, Gainesville, Macon, and Savannah. To this ...

MDSP Newsletter, September 2008

Volume 1, Issue 8

MDSP Newsletter, June 2008

Volume 1, Issue 7

Washington, D.C. Audience Hears Success Stories in Columbus’s Groundbreaking Fight against Diabetes

Councilor Barnes and Mr. Madden spoke  at a two-day meeting entitled “Spring Health Braintrust and Fifth Annual Health Disparities Leadership Summit,” sponsored by the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., and the American Medical Association, in cooperation with the Congressional Black Caucus of the Congress ...

Columbus Fire Stations and City Leaders Launch New, Unique Campaign

Beginning in March 2008, 11 neighborhood fire stations in the Columbus area started offering free written and blood sugar finger-stick risk assessment tests and diabetes-related brochures, seven days a week, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM. These risk assessment tests are administered by Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) ...

Medicare Diabetes Screening Project, Novo Nordisk to Sponsor Chamber of Commerce’s “Legislative Express 2007”

Novo Nordisk, a health care company committed to changing diabetes, and the Medicare Diabetes Screening Project (MDSP), a program geared to increasing use of Medicare screening benefits for diabetes, announced today that they have joined the Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce, and will be a premiere sponsor of the ...

MDSP Kicks-Off in Columbus, GA

The Mayor of Columbus, President of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Georgia  legislators, Terry Womack from the Center for Health Transformation (CHT), and Dr. Stephen Leichter, President of the Columbus Research Foundation (CRF), all joined MDSP in welcoming CAPT. Clara Cobb, Regional Health Administrator for the Department of Health and ...