United Healthcare- Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center

C1 3 was created to provide a common space where women of color could come and bask in the presence of god together.

Noire is for all women who don't have a "safe space" to proclaim the word of god amongst others who look like them.

Joining us by phone to tell us more is student leader, jessalyn brown.

Welcome to the show!

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Please tell us more about this new ministry.

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What inspired you and your fellow students to create such an awesome initiative?

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How has noire been received so such an awesome initiative?

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How has noire been received so far?

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Your ministry is open to all female students at georgetown.

What a great lesson in diversity for all of us to follow.

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Do you have a message of hope and inspiration you'd like to share with our viewers?

Diversity for all of us to follow.

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Do you have a message of hope and inspiration you'd like to share with our viewers?

Still to come.......... pre-diabetes can lead to type 2 diabetes and increase the risk for heart disease and stroke.

After the break we'll dive deep into pre-diabetes and the prevalence of the disease in kentucky.

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Cody: i'm here with dr laura hieronymus from uk healthcare and whitney allen with united healthcare community plan of kentucky.

Thank you both sng that i think is really coome ths partnership is between you guys.

Whitney allen: sure.

We have partnered with the uk barnstable brown to talk about pre-diabetes and the prevalence of diabetes in the state.

One in three kentucky adults has pre-diabetes.

It can lead to type 2 diabetes and increased risk for heart disease and stroke.

However, it's a window of opportunity to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes, so partnering with dr. hieronymus and her group to talk about pre-diabetes and what we can do in rural communities.

Cody: talk about what you guys are doing, because figuring out before it's too late, is kind of a big aspect of all of this, right?

Dr. laura hieronymus: it's very big.

I'm with uk healthcare, the barnstable brown diabetes center, and we have a nationally recognized program of endocrinology clinics as well as a free standing diabetes education program.

We at uk healthcare emphasize the importance of prevention, education, comprehensive clinical care, as well as our research portfolio.

In this respect, we're focusing on prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes.

We have a grant from united healthcare to do a pilot project to look at disbursing that diabetes prevention program across the commonwealth of kentucky.

Cody: what we find a lot of times in this situation is sometimes people want to ignore some of those issues, that maybe they're having the health issues and not actually look into the fact that they may have pre- diabetes, and this is a way to kind of outreach that, correct?

Dr. laura hieronymus: it is.

It is at that, and i think that most people with pre- diabetes don't really have any symptoms. cody: yeah.

Dr. laura hieronymus: so unless they have lab work done, blood work done, they just don't know that they have it.

Cody: if people want more information on this, because i think they're going to, because people are going to be, "hey, maybe i should look into this," how can they do that?

Dr. laura hieronymus: they can call our office at, specifically our education services, at 859-323-bbdc, that's 2232 on your keypad.

They can call our office, and they'll want to punch you in option three so they get a hold of our diabetes education services.

Cody: thank you both so much for the work you're doing and for being here to talk about.

I really appreciate it.

Whitney allen: thank you.

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