The Diabetes Education Team provides a variety of professional services aimed at helping you. Services are:

• What is Diabetes?
• Nutrition
  Individualized meal plan
  How to fit in daily bread and potatoes
  How to fit in occasional "sweets"
  Grocery store tour/dining out (with a registered dietition)
• Fears and feelings
• Complications
  Retinopathy (eye damage)
  Nephropathy (kidney damage)
  Neuropathy (nerve damage)
  Amputations
• Emergencies/Sick-day Management
  Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
  Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)
• Exercise
• Travel
• Foot Care/Good Hygiene
• Health Care/Community Resources
• Total Physical Assessment
• Blood glucose monitoring
• Long-term follow-up

Meet with the Diabetes Education Team, Cassandra B. Ford, RPh, CDE, Laura "Kim" Yokum, RD, and Shari Thompson, RN.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 8:00am-4:00pm or by appointment. Fees are billed to your insurance, Medicare or Medicaid.

Today in the US:

• 220 people will be diagnosed with diabetes
• 521 people will die from diabetes
• 152 people will lose a limb
• 76 people will start kidney dialysis
• 49 people will go blind