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.