Table 1.

Approximate Resources Needed to Implement and Sustain Diabetes Prevention Program in a Large Integrated Health Care Delivery System

	Estimated FTE per position per year or cost	Notes/tasks
Administrative/management
High-level administrative	0.025–0.05	Provide high-level oversight; strategic support
Project manager	0.10	Assist with program implementation, coordination, and reporting
Data support	0.05	Higher range of FTE required if interest in conducting more rigorous research/evaluation
Program implementation
Health education director	0.20	Directs MDPP, supervises MDPP coordinator and health education managers
DPP coordinator	1.00	Reaches out to all referrals, schedules all classes, fills in for lifestyle coaches
Health education managers ( × 2–3)	0.10	Health education managers teach classes but also provide management support to health educators housed at outpatient clinics
Health educators ( × 8–12)	0.075–0.10	Assumes each health educator teaches 2 class cycles per year (24 sessions: 16 core +8 maintenance) and also spends time documenting and preparing for classes
Master training certification	$1500–$3500 per person	One-time cost for master training certification; allows institution to train its own lifestyle coaches
Epic at Montefiore
Epic consultants–template creation	0.025	Resource needs may be higher during start-up of program
Epic consultants–reporting	0.025
Other internal resources
Billing support	0.025	Resources to set up billing
Outpatient clinics
Front desk staff	In-kind	Register patients
Referring providers	In-kind	Identify patients with prediabetes who may be interested in participating in DPP

DPP, Diabetes Prevention Program; FTE, full-time employee; MDPP, Montefiore Diabetes Prevention Program