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Diabetes Management Program and Resources
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Our new comprehensive Diabetes Management Program is designed to improve your self management skills to control your diabetes and prevent any diabetes-related complications. The program will:
- Provide tips to better control your diabetes;
- Improve your knowledge on diabetes and its effects;
- Provide information on your current diabetes medications and insulin pumps;
- Facilitate education classes offered through In-Network Diabetic Education Centers; and
- Work closely with your doctor to enhance your care
For more information, please call
415.972.4430.
Diabetes Education Centers and Classes:
California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC): Center for Diabetes Services
Recognized by the American Diabetes Association, this program provides comprehensive education to adults and children with Diabetes Type 1 or Type 2. The program offers classes and individual counseling sessions to people with diabetes to obtain information, tools, and strategies to self-manage their diabetes and prevent or delay the onset of complications. Additionally, the Center for Diabetes offers prevention classes for people with pre-diabetes as well as a pediatric program. All classes, provided by certified diabetes educators, range from the basics of diabetes to intensive management and insulin pump training. Support groups and counseling are also available. Staff speaks English, Tagalog, Spanish, and Chinese.
Call 415.600.0506 for more information.
St. Luke's Hospital: Diabetes Education Program
Offers a self-management training program recognized by the ADA as a center for excellence. Certified diabetes educators work to help patients develop healthy lifestyle choices, set and achieve goals, and teach patients how to prevent serious complications from diabetes. The staff is bilingual (English and Spanish).
Call 415.641.6826 for more information.
St. Mary's Medical Center: Diabetes Services
American Diabetes Association (ADA) certified education center focuses on the need for individual education. The nurse diabetes educator or dietitian offers individual appointments. Additionally, St. Mary's educators facilitate group education classes held on Friday afternoons. Members can attend classes on a drop in basis.
Call 415.750.5513 for more information.
California Pacific Medical Center - Community Health Resource Center (CHRC)
Quarterly classes on blood sugar monitoring, diet, and exercise are critical in the control of your diabetes. Take control of your health by learning more about diabetes at this refresher/introductory class. Taught by certified diabetes educators. Suitable for Type II diabetics.
Dates TBA, held on a quarterly basis.
Community Health Resource Center
10:30 a.m.- Noon
Call 415.923.3155 to register or for more information.
Diabetes and Prevention Class
Come learn about diabetes and how you can prevent it. Thursday April 9th 6-7 p.m. Bayview Library 5075 3rd Street at Revere. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Excelsior Library 4400 Mission Street at Cotter.
Call 415.533.9293 for more information.
Move to Improve Exercise and Movement
Presented by St. Luke's Diabetes Center and CPMC. People with diabetes or at risk are invited to this free Easy Movement Group. Thursdays 11 a.m. to noon. St. Luke's Hospital Griffin Room 1st floor by the lobby.
Call 415.641.6826 for more information.
Weight Loss: What Does It Take?
Discover how to go beyond simple calorie counting, in addition to learning physiological functions of the body. Get practical tips on how to lose weight in a sustainable, healthy way. Friday, March 5, 12:30 to 2 p.m. at 2100 Webster Street, Suite 106.
Call 415.923.3155 for more information.