Good Neighbor’s Diabetes Shoppe program wins honors for patient education newsletters

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. A series of health-oriented newsletters from Good Neighbor Pharmacy’s Diabetes Shoppe program has garnered honors for its effectiveness at helping people living with diabetes manage their disease.

GNP is the retail service division and branding program operated by AmerisourceBergen for independent pharmacies. The Living Without Limits newsletters published by Diabetes Shoppe – a program offered to GNP members specializing in the care of patients with diabetes – were recently awarded four awards for patient education by the National Health Information Awards Program. Living Without Limits won in several categories. Among them: a Gold Series Award for the past year's issues of Living Without Limits for Kids, a Silver Series Award for the past year's issues of Living Without Limits, and Bronze awards on single issues for both Living Without Limits and Living Without Limits for Kids.

The awards program is organized by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for consumer health information programs and materials. Diabetes Shoppe was competing with more than 1,000 entries submitted by leading organizations in the consumer health field, according to GNP.

The Living Without Limits newsletters are distributed to GNP locations across the United States that offer diabetes counseling and specialized services through the Diabetes Shoppe program. The newsletters contain health information, recipes, and information specific to patients with diabetes.