Who Are We - HEAL Mississippi

Our mission is to reduce the impact of diabetes, obesity and other related cardiometabolic diseases in Mississippi.

Our vision is to establish a standard of care for people with diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases that’s of high quality and easily accessible.

Our Purpose

God created us to be whole and healthy and it’s our purpose as healthcare providers and as an organization to empower those God has given us to serve and enable them to walk in His designed plan of health and healing.

H.E.A.L. Mississippi was established in 2017 as a strategy to improve health outcomes related to preventable chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other related conditions that effect heart functioning in minority communities due to the health disparities and health inequities these communities face as it relates to having access to quality healthcare services.

Our goal is to eliminate barriers Mississippians face in receiving quality healthcare services and provide equitable, easily accessible, quality healthcare services to all regardless of a person’s ability to pay. We began achieving this goal by hosting and participating in health fairs/health screening events all throughout the state of Mississippi providing blood glucose screenings, body composition analyses, nutritional assessments, cholesterol screenings, blood pressure checks and disseminating evidence-based disease prevention/management information. Through these efforts, we have been able to establish ourselves as a trusted healthcare organization, enabling us to advance organizationally from working out of a room in our executive director’s home, to establishing a thriving brick and mortar healthcare facility in the heart of Jackson, MS.

Programs and Services

About Our Services

At H.E.A.L. Mississippi, our mission is to reduce the impact of diabetes and other cardiometabolic conditions in Mississippi where the need is greatest. Popular sentiment is that these diseases only affect individuals with the conditions but that’s not the case. These conditions place a burden on everyone. They have immediate impact and future impact that can span generations. We aim to reduce all possible impacts. Timely diabetes care can not only save an individual's life, it can reduce diabetes complication risks.

Services and Programs

At H.E.A.L. Mississippi, we practice public health primary care through merging population health improvement with individual care. We aim to reduce any barrier to receiving quality, comprehensive care.

Primary Care Center
Urgent Care Center
University Health Services
Healthy Eating Active living Kids
Mississippi DMAP
Diabetes Help Desk
DSMES
National Diabetes Prevention Program
Medical Nutrition Therapy
Healthy Eating Active Living
HBCU C.H.A.M.P.

Services

Primary Care

We are a niche primary care center that specializes in comprehensively serving people with cardiometabolic conditions through a team-based approach utilizing traditional medicine and functional/ lifestyle medicine. The individuals we serve interact with us on a regular basis and have multiple access points to their healthcare team. Our aim is to be as accessible as possible. Our primary care center employs a multi-disciplined team of professionals who share visits with the people we serve to ensure they are receiving quality comprehensive care.
Urgent Care

Urgent Care is an easily accessible healthcare service that allows you to connect with our healthcare providers for non-emergent care needs in-person, via video calls, phone calls, or online messaging for minor medical concerns. Urgent Care allows for faster and more accurate diagnoses and treatments and eliminates unnecessary trips to an emergency room.
University Health Services

We are dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of all college students in Mississippi. University Health Services is a health center dedicated to college students designed to ease transition from pediatric care to adult care.
Medical Nutrition Therapy

Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) is an evidence-based, specialized nutritional approach used to manage or treat chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and renal issues. Provided by registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs), it involves tailored counseling and meal planning to improve health outcomes.
DSMES

Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) services are evidence-based, personalized programs designed to help individuals manage diabetes, reduce risks of complications, and improve quality of life.
Diabetes Help Desk

The Diabetes Help Desk is a centralized team of licensed healthcare professionals who specialize in diabetes care, designed to provide easy access to evidence-based diabetes self-management education and support while simultaneously reducing the burden of diabetes in Mississippi. The virtual help desk platform provides immediate access to a multidisciplinary healthcare team trained in lifestyle medicine via real time chats, text messaging, video calls and voice calls.
Mississippi DMAP

The Mississippi Diabetes Management and Prevention Network (DMAP) is a network of healthcare practitioners and practices, churches and other community-based organizations, public health agencies, communities, and individuals working together to eradicate diabetes in Mississippi. The goal of the network is to increase access to necessary and timely diabetes care to reduce further diabetes complications while reducing the financial burden of diabetes and diabetes complications on the individual, community, local, state, and federal government.

Programs

H.E.A.L. Kids

Healthy Eating Active Living Kids is a health program for children at risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity along with their families. The program provides them with health education and support that promotes sustainable health behaviors that are necessary to prevent type 2 diabetes and obesity. Building these behaviors not only prevent disease, it improves their psychosocial functioning, cognitive functioning, cardiovascular ﬁtness, and raises their self-esteem.
National Diabetes Prevention Program

The NDPP is a program aimed to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. The National DPP was created in 2010 to address the increasing burden of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in the United States. This national effort created partnerships between public and private organizations to offer evidence-based, cost-effective interventions that help prevent type 2 diabetes in communities across the United States.
HBCU C.H.A.M.P.

HBCU Community Health Ambassadors for Minorities Program (C.H.A.M.P.) is a cardiometabolic disease prevention program developed by us. The program takes a holistic approach to lifestyle change by training and developing community health workers on college campuses to serve as liaisons between students, the healthcare community and social service agencies. The health ambassadors work with students to improve health behaviors by promoting health education and improving access to health care and social services.
Healthy Eating Active Living

H.E.A.L. is an evidence-based comprehensive, lifestyle change program designed to promote health behaviors that prevent the onset of cardiometabolic diseases and manage existing cardiometabolic diseases.