Diabetes Education

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Mercy Philadelphia Hospital and Mercy Suburban Hospital offer individual counseling services and outpatient instruction. Certified Diabetes Educators are available to educate newly diagnosed diabetics and help those who need assistance with diabetes self-management.

Education programs are designed to help patients successfully manage all aspects of diabetes, including:

Monitoring diabetes
Healthy coping
Nutritional management
Medications
Gestational diabetes management
Disease process
Physical activity
Goal setting/problem solving
Preventing, detecting and treating acute complications
Preventing, detecting and treating chronic complications

Benefits of Diabetes Education

Diabetes education can have a wide range of positive effects, including fewer hospitalizations and reduced medical costs.

Presentations from the American Diabetes Association

The American Diabetes Association has developed several excellent presentations on the effect of food and exercise, and nerve damage in diabetes. Learn more about from the presentations below.

You Can Still Eat the Foods You Love

Motion’s the Potion: How Activity Helps

Nerve Damage or Neuropathy in Diabetes