An Exceptional Diabetes Care & Primary Care Clinic

This region of New Jersey (Essex County) is made up of large urban cities such as Newark, East Orange, Newark, Orange, South Orange, and others. Large ethnic/minority populations of African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos as well as migrants from many African countries and the Caribbean reside in the northern area of New Jersey who will benefit from the proposed primary healthcare, nutrition, and diabetes care interventions.

Currently there is a lack of healthcare service providers in the specific target area with a focus on diabetes care.  Consumer primary prevention, diabetes, nutrition, and health management intervention strategies will be implemented to address health prevention and disease promotion to combat chronic disease conditions such as cardiovascular and diabetes mellitus. 

Emphasis will also be placed on the provision of nutrition and health interventions to halt the epidemic of obesity and overweight both in adults and children to decrease the risk of diabetes mellitus and pre-diabetes. 

Diabetes Mellitus, which is now at an epidemic level, is closely linked to obesity which will be a major focus, as well as hyperlipidemias, heart disease, hypertension and other chronic conditions which are present in the target high risk ethnic minority populations of African Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics at higher rates and with current health projections that the incidence of obesity and diabetes mellitus will continue to increase in these ethnic minority population groups.  

CORE VALUE STATEMENTS Sivam Diabetes & Primary Care LLC. is committed to the following core values:     

• Leadership to envision possibilities, seek opportunities, advocate, and act to meet                            

             community needs for diabetes and primary care.     

• Commitment to make a difference in our communities.           
• Teamwork to build a stronger and always improving organization. 
• Partnership to learn from and work with our community through collaboration and   

             cooperation to optimize diabetes and primary care.    

• Integrity in all things.     
• Passion for quality and excellence in healthcare.   
• Excellence to hold ourselves to the highest standards in all we do.   
• Cultural Competence to promote cultural diversity in diabetes care and primary care     
• Motivation to innovate diabetes and primary care.
• Innovation to think and act in new ways to achieve greatness in diabetes and primary care                       
• Accountable to our clients and their members, to our supports, and to  one another.    
• Respect to recognize the intrinsic value and dignity of all individuals.    

STRATEGIC STATEMENT : The overall purpose of Sivam Diabetes & Primary Care LLC. to improve clinical outcomes, health status, and quality of life.  The use of innovation and care coordination to significantly address the gaps in primary healthcare and the alarming diabetes mellitus prevalence and incidence trends in Newark and surrounding service areas in New Jersey by: 

-     The provision of high-quality primary care with a focus on diabetes care. 

-     Informed decision-making. 

-     Diabetes Mellitus Management to improve diabetes Self-Care behaviors.             

-     Problem-solving and active collaboration with the health care team.             

-     Facilitating positive diabetes mellitus self - care behaviors directed at successful diabetes self –  

      management              

-     Provision of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT).