DSMES

March 3, 2025

UAMS, AR Health Ventures Partner with Arkansas Pharmacies to Improve Diabetes Education

David Wise

Julie Stewart, a pharmacist at Medical Arts Pharmacy in Fayetteville, fills a prescription for a customer.

Pharmacies across Arkansas are offering diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) programs as part of a collaboration with AR Health Ventures and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation to help rural, diabetic Arkansans better understand and manage their diabetes. Funded by the U.S Centers for Disease Control &…

October 11, 2024

New UAMS Initiative Trains Community Health Workers to Provide Diabetes Support in Rural Pharmacies

David Wise

Tina Hedrick from AFMC leads CHWs in an exercise on anatomy as part of the DEEP training program.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation launched a statewide initiative to train community health workers (CHWs) to provide diabetes support using the Diabetes Empowerment Education Program (DEEP) curriculum. This training, which is part of a larger statewide initiative to empower local communities to improve diabetes management and outcomes,…