Hawaii Get USD10m Dollars for Diabetics

Thu, 22 Sep 2011
Hawaii's Human Services Department has been given $9.9 million in federal grant to help diabetic Medicaid patients.

The five-year grant from Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is going to fund programmes to improve early detection of diabetes and help diabetics to control it.

It is also going to provide incentives to doctors who currently provide diabetes treatment.

Diabetes is on the increase in Hawaii and the funds could not have been timelier.

Diabetes is a growing chronic condition in Hawaii, especially so for it Medicaid residents.

Hawaii's biggest health insurance company, Hawaii Medical Service Association, states that around 100,000 people are diabetic in Hawaii, with another 25,000 or so not having been diagnosed as yet.

More than 11,000 Medicaid-insured adults are diabetics in Hawaii.

The grant is to be spent in addressing tobacco smoking, controling weight, lowering cholesterol, reducing blood pressure and diabetes control and prevention.

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