State stops funding successful diabetes program

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The University of Texas Community Outreach program, the first of its kind in Corpus Christi, was the result of state efforts to fund innovative plans aimed at controlling diabetes, a chronic disease that is one of the biggest drivers of health care costs.

Within two years, the Nueces County program was reporting success, saving the state an estimated $1.2 million in the county alone.

Despite that, lawmakers failed to renew funding in 2011, forcing the program to downsize and eliminate its most innovative elements.