DHWI Healthy
Harvest Fun Walk/5K
Run & Diabetes Expo
self-management and wellness
a health care team, including a
outreach projects.
and diabetes education specialists,
programs, education initiatives and
Founded in 2010, DHWI is a
collaboration between Baylor Scott &
The seventh annual Diabetes
White Health and the City of Dallas,
(DHWI) Healthy Harvest Fun
care and disease prevention services
brought together supporters to raise
in surrounding ZIP codes are three
the newly renamed Baylor Scott &
compared to those living in other
Juanita J. Craft Recreation Center.
Prior to DHWI’s opening, the area
Health and Wellness Institute
to provide access to quality health
Walk/5K Run & Diabetes Expo
to this high-risk community. Residents
awareness and generate funding for
times more likely to die from diabetes
White Health and Wellness Center at
areas of Dallas.
The eventreceived support from
lacked services that are essential to
presenting sponsor, Vizient, and
doctors’ offices or hospitals, healthy
The Fun Walk raised more than
exercise programs and affordable
physician, nurses, care coordinators
the results speak for themselves.
Since opening, more than 6,000
community
members
have
par ticipated directly in DHWI
programs, and as of September 30,
2016, 40 percent of the Institute’s
members who have diabetes have
achieved optimal blood sugar levels,
and 75 percent have reached optimal
blood pressure control.
For more information about
many generous sponsors, including
living healthy, such as access to
DHWI, contact Amy Monday at
founding sponsor, OTSL Charities.
food options and grocery stores,
[email protected].
$140,000 for the Institute’s diabetes
transportation. By providing access to
214.820.4771 or
2016 Diabetes Health and
Wellness Institute Healthy Harvest
Fun Walk/5K Run starting line
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