Diabetes and Your Health
Benefits of our Accredited Diabetes Care and Self-Management Program:
- Gain an overall understanding of Diabetes Care and Self-Management.
- Learn to eat healthier, manage your medications, and monitor your blood sugar.
- Gain tools to set achievable weight loss goals.
- Learn ways to increase activity levels, understand diabetes, the ability to give yourself injections, and increase your ability to handle complications (vision and mobility issues, low energy, painful hands/feet).
- Learn to manage stress and emotions that can impact your diabetes.
How the program works
You will first meet with a member of our team to complete a health assessment and establish an individualized education plan. Our Living with Diabetes Program consists of a 3 hour “core class” followed by four interactive conversation map sessions that are selected by you. Our goal is to provide you with the information and support needed to manage your diabetes.
Diabetes Self-Management Programs are shown to:
- Lower A1c levels
- Prevent or reduce diabetes complications
- Improve quality of life
- Lower your medical expenses
To attend our Living with Diabetes Program, please request an referral from the medical provider that manages your diabetes.
Please call 740-393-9797 for additional questions or information.
Diabetes is a more manageable disease today than it has been in the past. Recent medical advances have given individuals an opportunity to gain better control of their blood sugar levels and therefore reduce their risk of complications. Knox Community Hospital has offered the Living with Diabetes program since 2002.
