Program & Initiatives

As of 2017, in accordance with Ohio House Bill 216, the Ohio Department of Health is required to convene with representatives from the Ohio Department of Medicaid, Ohio Department of Administrative Services, and Ohio Commission on Minority Health, known as the Diabetes Action Plan Committee, to develop an Ohio Diabetes Action Plan (DAP) every three years. The DAP Committee is tasked with the following:

• Assessing the prevalence of all types of diabetes in this state, including disparities in prevalence among various demographic populations, local jurisdictions, and state employees. 

• Providing updates on current and future diabetes initiatives within each appointed agency.

• Monitoring initiatives to reduce the prevalence of all types of diabetes, improve diabetes care, and control complications associated with diabetes among the populations of concern to each agency.

• Developing policy and program recommendations to decrease diabetes prevalence in Ohio.

• Developing proposed costs to implement policy and program recommendations.

• Identifying how to measure progress achieved toward attaining established policy and program recommendations.

• Convening external stakeholder meetings for recommendation/progress review and feedback.

The 2024 report is now published. All reports can be found within the Data & Publications section of this page. 

 

The Ohio Diabetes Prevention and Management Program (DPMP), solely funded by CDC cooperative agreement DP23-0020, seeks to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes and improve self-care practices, quality of care, and early detection of complications among people with diabetes, with a focus on reducing health disparities for priority populations. DPMP priorities are listed below. 

• Support DSMES and National DPPs to obtain Ohio Medicaid and/or Medicare supplier status to promote program sustainability. 

• Implement a fruit and vegetable prescription program in DSMES and National DPP sites to increase program enrollment and retention, while also reducing participant food insecurity and increasing access to healthy foods. 

• Provide trainings to DSMES and National DPPs on how to incorporate social determinant of health (SDOH) strategies into program curriculum to better address health disparities among people with diabetes. 

• Implement DSMES and National DPPs in pharmacies using sustainable program models to increase program access in counties of highest need (i.e., counties with high diabetes/prediabetes prevalence and high social vulnerability). 

• Prevent diabetes complications for priority populations through early detection by implementing protocols and procedures to screen for diabetic retinopathy and chronic kidney disease in health systems, primary care practices, and/or federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).

• Provide DSMES and National DPP staff with additional educational training to increase enrollment and engagement of priority populations.

• Assist organizations and health systems to become accredited/recognized DSMES programs. 

• Work with Ohio-based employers within socially vulnerable counties to add the National DPP as a covered healthcare benefit.

To learn more, view the Ohio Diabetes Prevention and Management Program Spotlight.