Six Minnesota Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), including Blue Plus, HealthPartners, Hennepin Health, Medica, PrimeWest Health, and South Country Health Alliance, are collaborating on this Performance Improvement Project (PIP).

Interventions will focus on addressing co-occurring conditions of diabetes and depression for seniors enrolled in Minnesota Senior Health Options (MSHO) and Minnesota Senior Care Plus (MSC+), as well as for Special Needs Basic Care (SNBC) populations. The PIP will be effective from 2024 through 2026 and will focus on improving care for people with co-occurring diabetes and depression. This PIP will also focus on improving diabetes care and control, with a particular emphasis on reducing health disparities.

The Collaborative will incorporate community-informed measures into the PIP processes for MSHO, MSC+, and SNBC members. The overall goal of community-informed measurement is to engage the groups of people most negatively impacted by structural inequities by collecting enrollee input on their interactions with the healthcare system and by developing community-informed measures for the project.

Resources

American Diabetes Association – Minnesota and North Dakota Chapter

Performance Improvement Project (PIP): Improving Comprehensive Diabetes Care (2021-2023)

Upcoming webinars

CHWs in Practice: Lessons from a CHW Service Provider
Thursday, May 28, 2026, noon-1 p.m.
Presenter: Evan Curtin, Executive Director, WellShare International
Community Health Workers (CHWs) strengthen public health and care teams by serving as trusted links between members, communities, and health systems. Through culturally responsive support, CHWs help address social drivers of health, improve engagement, and enhance care coordination—complementing the work of nurses, care coordinators, doulas, and other professionals. This presentation will help participants understand the CHW scope of practice and core functions, recognize how CHWs support Maternal and Child Health, as well as coexisting diabetes and depression, and distinguish the CHW role within interdisciplinary care teams.
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Recorded webinars

How to Simplify Managing Your Mental Health
Tuesday, January 14, 2026
Prioritizing your mental health is essential because it affects every area of your life. This webinar shares mental health strategies you can use to manage your mental health, leading to better overall health and quality of life.

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Regenerative Cooking as Prevention
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
This webinar integrates the concepts of social determinants of health, food skills and literacy, and chronic disease prevention/management through culinary nutrition education and the development of skills and literacy to improve health and wellbeing.
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Nourishing the Mind and Body: Affordable Nutrition Approaches for Diabetes and Depression
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
This webinar can deepen your understanding of the link between mental health and nutrition while building skills in practical food selection to best support your patients. Viewers will receive an overview of applicable and affordable nutrition strategies for supporting clients with both conditions.
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Resources from this webinar

Changing the Narrative on Mental Health and Suicide
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Talking about mental health and suicide can be an uncomfortable and uncertain topic that can bring up different feelings, beliefs, and attitudes for everyone. This webinar will empower participants to initiate conversations that foster a shift in perceptions of mental health toward hope and resilience.
NOTE: This webinar was not recorded due to the topic’s sensitive nature.
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Understanding and Overcoming the Unique Barriers to Care for People with Diabetes and Depression
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
This webinar will review the realities of living with both a mental illness and a chronic health issue, how confounding symptoms can complicate care, and how care coordinators, social workers, counselors, and other caregivers can support the health of the person with the illnesses.
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Diabetes and Depression: Case Reviews
Thursday, June 20, 2024
This webinar reviews three different cases, identifies different scenarios in working with people who have both diabetes and depression, and highlights the vital role care coordinators have in supporting the care teams in managing the complexity of co-occurring diabetes and depression.
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Supporting People with Co-occurring Diabetes and Depression
Thursday, February 29, 2024
This webinar is the first in a series focusing on improving the health of people with diabetes and depression. Participants will receive an overview of issues commonly seen when these conditions co-occur and strategies for supporting clients with both conditions.
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Health Plan Performance Improvement Projects (PIPs)

Minnesota health plans that offer publicly subsidized health care programs implement performance improvement projects (PIP) to help improve public program members’ health and reduce disparities for low-income Minnesotans. The projects have covered a wide range of health topics identified as priorities for improvement, including preventive care, management of chronic illnesses, and transitions in care.
Projects with resources currently available:

Contact information

For more information on how your organization and Stratis Health can work together, please contact Karla Weng, director, program management, 952-853-8570, or Nicole Gackstetter, program manager, 952-853-8512.