The Diabetes Center

George Ehringer MD     Medical Director

Diabetes is a serious disease that can lead to blindness, heart disease, strokes, kidney failure, and loss of a limb. You are at greater risk for diabetes if you are age 45 or older, you are overweight, you have high blood pressure, or if you have a family history of diabetes.

The Diabetes Center offers a variety of educational programs to help people with diabetes feel better and enjoy a healthier life by learning to control their blood glucose levels. Our registered nurses and dietitians work with individuals and their physicians to develop personalized diabetes care plans that teach them how to:

• Plan meals
• Manage medications
• Begin an exercise program
• Monitor blood glucose levels
• Make lifestyle changes
• Cope with diabetes

We believe people with diabetes can live healthy, productive and enjoyable lives.

Pre-Diabetes - What is it and what can I do?  

Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "pre-diabetes" - blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. At least 20.1 million people in the United States (21.1% of the population), ages 40 to 74, have pre-diabetes. Recent research has shown that some long-term damage to the body, especially the heart and circulatory system, may already be occurring during pre-diabetes. But research has also shown that if you take action to control your blood glucose when you have pre-diabetes,  you can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes from ever developing.

ADA Recognition

Our diabetes education program is recognized for excellence by the American Diabetes Association. The ADA education recognition is a voluntary process that assures approved education programs have met stringent national standards. According to the ADA, programs that achieve recognition status have a staff of knowledgeable health professionals who can provide
state-of-the-art information about diabetes management for participants. For more information visit http://www.diabetes.org/.

Contact Us

For more information about our educational programs and support groups, please contact us at 386-231-3178.