Collectives for Care: Perspectives of Providers and Community Members in Transgender Health Care in a Southern U.S. City.

Affirming and accessible health care may improve health outcomes for trans individuals in the U.S. We explored strategies to improve affirming care for trans individuals from the perspectives of providers and transgender and non-binary community members.

Multidisciplinary team approach to improved chronic care management for diabetic patients in an urban safety net ambulatory care clinic.

Since the care of patients with multiple chronic diseases such as diabetes and depression accounts for the majority of health care costs, effective team approaches to managing such complex care in primary care are needed, particularly since psychosocial and physical disorders coexist. Uncontrolled diabetes is a leading health risk for morbidity, disability and premature mortality with between 18-31% of patients also having undiagnosed or undertreated depression. Here we describe a team driven approach that initially focused on patients with poorly controlled diabetes (A1c > 9) that took place at a family medicare office.