Spanish Diabetes Education Classes a Success
Hope Community Health Center hosted a Spanish diabetes education class at its facility from May to June. The classes were conducted by the Chandler Regional Medical Center's Diabetes Education Center. It was the first time the Diabetes Education Center had completed its training in Spanish. The class received excellent reviews from the participants! Here are the responses to the evaluation questions.
Question
“What did we like the most about the Diabetes Self-Management Training Program”
Answers
- The way it was explained how to eat with diabetes.
- How the teach me how to take care of myself.
- How to eat better.
- I learned how to eat and how it got rid of some doubts about what to eat.
- The way the class is taught it makes us feel valued as people and it shows how others care and are interested in helping us out.
Question
“How can we improve this program?"
- Help us to find programs that cover some of the expense of the diabetes medications.
- Continue to offer and support Spanish Diabetes Education on an ongoing basis.
- Continue to teach the Hispanic community how to control our diabetes in order to live a more productive life.
Question
"Would you recommend this program to your family and friends?"
- All patients marked ‘yes’ in their application.
- A patient stated, “I’m currently teaching my daughters about portion control and how to eat healthy and they are happy about it”.
Other comments
- Thank you for giving us your time and wanting to help us.
- Above all thank you for encouraging us and making us feel that we can control our blood sugar. Thanks for everything.
Appreciating our Support
On January 25, 2008 HCHC honored those who have supported the medical outreach to the Chandler community. Honorees were noted for exceptional volunteer service, vital community collaboration, and significant financial donations.
Exceptional Volunteers were:
Mike DelVecchio, Priscilla Kotcamp, Yvette Leslie, Mark Durben, Anna Morales, Shirley Notestine, and Pat Dressendorfer
Vital Community Collaborators were:
Community Interfaith Ministries, IT Workshop, Pan De Vida, and Desirae Westberg
Financial donors received a clear acrylic award commemorating their outstanding support of HCHC in 2007. The honorees were:
Carpe Diem Properties, First National Bank of Arizona, Grace Community Church, Sonora Quest Laboratories, and Chandler Regional Hospital
Stamp of Approval – June 23, 2007
On March 8, 2007 the City of Chandler inspected our clinic site. In the initial inspection HCHC failed. The inspector cited that there were not plans on file with the City to make the large 5,400 foot suite into three smaller sized suites, and an additional emergency exit was needed.
From that point the landlord, who was completing the renovations on HCHC’s behalf, had to hire an architect to submit building drawings to the city’s Planning and Zoning Office. In a gracious gesture, since the inspection had failed, the landlord suspended the rent until the certificate of occupancy was received. HCHC deeply thanks Carpe Diem Properties for their graciousness.
It took ten weeks to get architectural plans and permit applications approved to begin the additional renovations. The largest renovation was addition of the emergency exit and a handicapped ramp. The construction work took three weeks to complete.
On June 23, 2007 the City of Chandler inspector approved the clinic site and HCHC received the certificate of occupancy. So after much anticipation HCHC has moved into its home.
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