Our personnel help you understand your diabetes and provide solutions to the challenges you face, not just hard and fast rules that don't always apply. Mathes Diabetes Center helps motivate you to successfully manage your diabetes. Four educational classes starting the first week of every month:
1. Orientation and explanation of disease state
2. Carbohydrate counting / healthy meal planni
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3. Medications, blood glucose monitoring, and exercise
4. Long-term complications
Six months of follow-up consultations with a diabetes educator which includes blood pressure screenings, downloaded meter readings, and graph printouts. Also included in program:
- Glucose meter
- Insulin pump start-up training
- Insulin management program
- Billing options to keep patient's out of pocket expenses at a minimal
- Introduce patients to the 4 M's of diabetes management: Monitoring, Movement, Meal planning, and Medication