Press release:
The United Memorial Medical Center diabetes self-management education program offered through Healthy Living has been awarded continued Recognition from the American Diabetes Association.
The program was also recognized in March 2009. It offers high quality education services to the patients it serves.
The ADA Education Recognition effort began in the fall of 1986 as a voluntary process to assure that approved education programs met the National Standards for Diabetes Self-management Education Programs.
Programs that achieve Recognition status have a staff of knowledgeable health professionals who can provide the most current information regarding diabetes management for participants.
Self-management education is an essential component of diabetes treatment. One consequence of compliance with the national standards is the greater consistency in the quality and quantity of education offered to people with diabetes.
The participant in an ADA Recognized program will be taught, as needed, self-care skills that will promote better management of his or her diabetes treatment regimen.
All approved education programs cover the following topics as needed: diabetes disease process; nutritional management; physical activity; medications; monitoring; preventing, detecting and treating acute complications; preventing, detecting, and treating chronic complications through risk reduction; goal setting and problem solving; psychological adjustment; and preconception care, management during pregnancy and gestational management.
Unnecessary hospital admissions and some of the acute and chronic complications of diabetes may be prevented through self-management education. For more information, contact United Memorial’s Healthy Living Department, located at 211 E. Main St., Batavia, or by telephone at 344-5331.
