The El Camino Healthcare District is leading a multi-year Population Health Strategy, with an initial focus on prediabetes.
The El Camino Healthcare District’s Population Health Strategy serves as a foundation for identifying and intervening to improve the health of “rising risk” individuals who live, work, or go to school within the District. Rising risk refers to individual who are not yet high-need or high-cost but are on the trajectory to become so, and may benefit from prevention-focused support to avoid escalating to higher levels of need. In June 2025, the District Board approved a strategic direction to support future Population Health initiatives, including: (1) ECHD Population Health Profile, and (2) Population Health 3-5 Year Strategy Roadmap.
ECHD Population Health Profile
In FY 2025, extensive data analysis on the District population informed a Population Health Profile and the strategic direction of future Population Health efforts. The analysis looked at prevalence of chronic conditions across the District and indicated that Prediabetes is the highest prevalence condition for adults (45%, or ~100,000 adults).
The Population Health Profile also includes additional data that will help to inform execution strategy for targeted outreach and future programming. Data attributes evaluated in the Profile include: Age, Race/Ethnicity, Income, Insurance Coverage, and Proximity to food sources.
Population Health 3-5 Year Strategy Roadmap
In addition to the ECHD Population Health Profile, the 3-5 Year Strategy Roadmap defines the type of initiatives and programming the District will develop to improve the health of our population. The 3-5 Year Strategy Roadmap is comprised of three distinct workstreams:
- Workstream 1: Individual self-management programming for adults
- Workstream 2: Group / social programming for adults to enhance peer support efforts
- Workstream 3: Youth-focused, education-centric approach to encourage healthy habits in children and adolescents
The Roadmap consists of a phased approach, with the building and launch of Workstream 1 beginning in FY 2026, with the planning and development Workstreams 2 and 3 later in FY 2026 and FY 2027.
Prediabetes Nutrition Program
Launching in FY 2026, the initial Population Health program is the Outsmart Prediabetes campaign focused on improving self-risk awareness and supporting healthy lifestyle changes through virtual nutrition education.
The Outsmart Prediabetes campaign was born from the data showing that approximately 100,000 adults in the District have prediabetes, but as many as 8 in 10 do not know it. The campaign builds on the idea that prediabetes often goes unnoticed, while empowering individuals to take a proactive step to understand their risk and act.
To learn more, visit the El Camino Healthcare District’s Outsmart Prediabetes page. Here, individuals can answer a few simple screening questions to gain awareness of their own prediabetes risk. Then, if the screening shows they may have prediabetes, the District will connect eligible participants with a licensed dietitian at Season Health to develop a personalized health plan. The service is covered by most insurers and subsidized by the District (if eligible) with no out-of-pocket costs to the participant.
