Employer Relations

To help people with diabetes gain a better understanding of their disease and find ways of managing it, many employers have implemented diabetes management programs. Through these programs, employees with diabetes can learn how to take better care of themselves so that serious complications do not develop. In the process, employees also become smarter health care consumers. In addition, intervention programs, with their emphasis on prevention, can help reduce the costs of health care. One of the main goals of this component of the initiative was to enable other companies to learn about innovative programs and adapt them for their employees. By providing employers and health plans with information about models that work and strategies that have been successful, Taking on Diabetes provided inspiration for other industries to develop ways to work with their employees and their health plans to create a healthier, more productive work force.

Taking on Diabetes
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
South Building, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 778-3281
takingondiabetes@ahip.org