Information for Employers

Food as Medicine

Event Presentations

Dr. Sandra Musial on Food is Medicine

Dr. Mariah Stump's presentation

Dr. Neal Barnard and Joel Erickson's presentation

Rhode Island Department of Health

Diabetes Awareness

Rhode Island World Diabetes Day is Tuesday Nov. 12, 2024. Learn more about this annual event:

World Diabetes Day

Chronic Disease Prevention and Management

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH)’s Diabetes and Cardiovascular Health (DCH) Program provides information and resources to enable people to better prevent and manage chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and more.  

Reducing diabetes and chronic disease risk can help strengthen your workforce. More than 1 in 3 Rhode Island adults have prediabetes and don't know it. Complications of diabetes and prediabetes (having higher blood glucose, or sugar, than is normal, but not yet as high as with diabetes) can affect the health and quality of life of your employees.

RIDOH’s DCH Program recommends the following tools and resources for employers:

Healm

Healm is a diabetes prevention Employer Learning Collaborative platform for the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP), developed in collaboration with State Health Departments and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD). Healm offers tools to implement an effective diabetes prevention program benefit for employees.

Healm: Diabetes Prevention for the Workforce - National Association of Chronic Disease Directors 

NACDD Employer Coverage Landscape

The NACDD Employer Coverage Landscape shares private and public employers that offer coverage for the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) lifestyle change program as part of their benefit offerings and offers case studies and examples to draw from.

Employer Coverage Landscape: Map and Visualizations - National DPP Coverage Toolkit