San I Pueblo HHS

Native Americans have the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the United States. Diabetes prevention and treatment efforts are important priorities to decrease the onset of diabetes and its complications.

In response, the Pueblo de San Ildefonso’s, Department of Health and Human Services Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) Program, in an effort to raise the health status of the San Ildefonso people, provides comprehensive prevention education and care management services to every person with diabetes, their families and community members. 

The long-range goal of the SDPI Program is to reduce the incidence of diabetes and complications of the disease through nutritional, physical, and behavioral/lifestyle changes as well as individualized care management, in collaboration with Indian Health Services, as well San I’s Community Health Representative (CHR), Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities (HKHC), &  Health Council programs, and other community partners.