Don’t Lose Hope and its Associates are determined to implement a Comprehensive Community Value-based Health Promotion and Education Outreach Program to serve as an Interprofessional Learning, Teaching, and Educational Center:

This is a sorely needed venue in which local and out-of-Rio Grande Valley health institutions, faculty, and students can have hands-on community health best practices that benefit the Rio Grande People and Communities while improving health outcomes and establishing a new culture of good health in South Texas where lifestyle disease, let alone Diabetes is rampant.

The RGV is the Nation’s hardest hit region by lifestyle diseases.

Here, Diabetes and Obesity are rampant, and the statistics have been

Staggering for the past consecutive 5 years.

“In the United States of America, 1 in 12 individuals has diabetes.

Here in the Rio Grande Valley, 1 in 3 individuals has diabetes.”

The Rio Grande Valley of South Texas is The Nation’s Epicenter / Ground Zero for Lifestyle Disease, Diabetes Type 2 being #1

Kidney Failure and Dialysis are Rampant in The Rio Grande Valley of South Texas: A Major Regional Health and Social Problem.