Centra Health's Diabetes program is designed to promote diabetes self-management. Patients need to provide a physician referral so we'll have information about their need.
We provide diabetes education to patients, family members and caretakers, and we offer inpatient as well as outpatient education. Through our program, people recently diagnosed with diabetes learn survival skills including:
- a basic intro to the disease process
- foot care eye and dental health
- meal planning and food label reading
- guidelines for sick day management
- medication information (oral or insulin)
- self-monitoring guidelines instructions on use of the glucose meter
- exercise to promote better control of the disease and improve well-being
- managing complications traveling skills
- intensive insulin management
Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital
3300 Rivermont Ave.
Lynchburg,
VA
24503
Resource Area: local
Updated: 10/03/2017 [ 2814 ]
