Description

The investigators are conducting this research to test a computer-based screening tool and a care coordination protocol to help people with type 2 diabetes who report unmet social determinants of health.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. - Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Examples of SDOH include factors such as housing, transportation, education, job opportunities, income, and access to healthy food, clean air and water, and health care services. Participants who join this research will be asked to complete a screening survey about their health. Then, participants will be randomly assigned (like pulling a name out of a hat) to one of two groups:

• Those in Group 1 will be partnered with a patient navigator whose role will be to review the results of the screening survey and help coordinate care before leaving the hospital and for 90 days after.
• Those in Group 2 will receive treatment as usual. A list of community-based resources will be provided.

Participants in both groups will complete surveys at the beginning of the study and again at 30 and 90 days after leaving the hospital. The investigators will make reminder calls to participants in both groups about data collection and will collect information from the medical record for as long as 90 days after leaving the hospital.