Metro Public Health Downtown Clinic for the Homeless

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Metro Public Health Downtown Clinic for the
Homeless

• Southeast Cluster

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Metro Public Health Department

• Location
• 526 8th Ave. So Nashville, TN 37203
• Size of Clinic Seventeen Staff Members
• Clinic Director, Medical Director, 2 Nurse
  Practitioners, 2 Clinical
  Nurses, Diabetes Educator/Clinic Manager, Mental
  Health Specialist, 2 AD Counselors, 2 Social
  Workers, Office Support Staff, and Courier
• Programs offered at our center
• Primary Care, Alcohol Drug, Mental Health
  Dental, Social Services, Transportation

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• Population Served 2004
• --Primary Care 2293
• Mental Health 436
• Dental 797
• Number of patients diagnosed with
• Type 1 2 Diabetes 220
• Number of homeless served 3998
• Ethnic mix
• Number Percent
• Asian 3 0.1
• Black/African 2095 52.4
• White 1644 41.1
• Hispanic or Latino 256 6.4
• Total Served 3998 100.0

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Team Members

• Scott Orman, Clinic Director, Senior Leader
• Ida Self, RN,CDE, Team Leader
• Dr. Keith Junior, Medical Director,
• Tracy Beadle, APRN, FNP-BC
• Diane Campbell, APRN, FNP-BC
• Chuck Holmes, Information Services

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Aim

• Metro Public Health Department Downtown Clinic
  serving the needs of the homeless will redesign
  the clinical systems to improve provide the care
  to our patients with Diabetes Mellitus. This
  will be accomplished through implementing the
  components of the chronic care model.

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POF - Diabetes

• 200 patients
• The first 200 active clients (two or more visits)
  to the clinic
• One Site - Metro Public Health Downtown Clinic
  serving the needs of the homeless

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Key Diabetes Measures
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Registry

• Has not been populated due to PECS installation
  problems

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Key Partnerships

• Examples
• Metropolitan Health Department
• Novartis, Pfizer, Pharmaceuticals
• Rescue Mission
• The Campus for Human Development
• Etc.