2009

The Consortium initiates the Diabetes Improvement Project (DIP) in October with Alan Graber, M.D. and the Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance to serve as co-directors of the project. Consortium member clinics at the time served 106,544 people; 7,429 of whom were diabetic. This initiative focused on normalizing as near as possible the clinical outcomes of the 7,429 patients with diabetes who were receiving care from the 21 Consortium member clinics. The goal of the project is to normalize as near as possible the clinical outcomes of the 7,429 patients with diabetes who attend the 21 Consortium member clinics.