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Clinicas del Azucar
This Social Enterprise model helps prevent diabetes-related complications to people in Mexico, providing specialized and affordable care. Clinicas del Azucar is venture-backed social enterprise founded by Javier Lozano.
They are a chain of specialized, low-cost diabetes clinics that provide affordable and comprehensive care. Introducing low-cost screening devices, proprietary evidence-based algorithms and mobile health solutions to reduce the price of care significantly.
Each patient pays fixed-cost membership fees allowing him/her to have unlimited access to diagnostics, labs and consultations for one year. They made a redesign of the care processes, use of cutting-edge technology, implantation of a sophisticated payment method and creation of one-stop shops, reducing 70% of the annual cost of care. Their idea is to help to reduce critical socioeconomic issue, the inequality and the impovement of peoples´quality of life.
In Mexico there are 14 million of people with diabetes and less than 10% have access to a specialized care, being the numer one cause of death.
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The patients can choose from 3 different packages of varying costs and services; the preventative package for $71 USD, integral package for $185 USD, and integral plus package for $256. In the next 5 years, the chain hopes to open more than 50 clinics to impact more than 100,000 patients, reduce 15,000 complications and save patients more than $70 million. Clinicas del Azúcar has saved patients more than 15 trips to the clinic. They estimated that each patient that joins the clinic reduces the chance of developing a diabetes-related complication by 50%. Currently, the clinic sees 400 patients in 2 months.