Trusted, Nurse-Led Diabetes Care for Church Wellness Communities

No. We’re a secular health education program. We don’t proselytize, don’t push doctrinal positions, don’t pressure members to buy products beyond the membership itself, and don’t use your member list for anything beyond the program. Your members hear about HealthViber once through your church and from then on it’s their relationship with us. We don’t market other products to them through your channel.

Almost nothing. HealthViber carries the professional liability and program insurance. Members enroll directly with us there’s no member-church-HealthViber contract. The only thing we ask is that the church space (if in-person) is safe and accessible. Your church is essentially providing a meeting room and helping spread the word about a program your members can choose to join. We can share our partnership agreement template with your legal counsel before signing anything.

The church doesn’t pay anything members pay individually. If individual members can’t afford $39/month, we have several paths: HSA/FSA reimbursement (most members qualify), employer wellness benefits (we can help members check), and in genuine hardship cases, community-sponsored access through our foundation. No one is turned away from our partnership churches purely for financial reasons.

All of them. We currently partner with Black church traditions (National Baptist, AME, COGIC), Latino Catholic and Pentecostal congregations, mainline Protestant churches (Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran), non-denominational and evangelical churches, and select interfaith communities. The program is secular and adapts to your congregation’s culture and language — we don’t impose doctrinal frameworks of any kind.

A cohort is 8-12 members. If you have fewer than 8 interested members initially, we can either combine your members with members from another nearby partner church (with everyone’s permission), or wait until enrollment reaches the minimum. We don’t run cohorts smaller than 8 because the group dynamic is part of what makes the program work.

Yes. We have multiple Spanish-speaking Facilitators across the country who run Spanish-language cohorts. For partner churches with Spanish-speaking congregations, we’ll match a Facilitator who not only speaks the language but understands the cultural context food, family structures, work patterns that affect how habits get built. Spanish-language materials are also fully available.

Our Facilitators are credentialed nurses (DCES or RN) and are trained in basic emergency response. The standard protocol for any member medical emergency is: call 911 immediately, provide basic first aid if appropriate, contact the member’s emergency contact, document the incident. This applies to virtual sessions too if a member shows signs of distress on a video call, the Facilitator stops the session and walks them through getting help. We carry insurance to cover these scenarios.

Only with their explicit permission. Members can opt in to having their church receive aggregated, anonymous participation reports (“12 members from your church attended sessions this month”). We never share individual member health information, attendance, progress, or personal data back to the church without that specific member’s written permission. The relationship between a member and their Facilitator is private same as it would be with any healthcare educator.