“Better health through education”

The Diabetes Management Center at CMMC was created to provide individualized education to the patient, their families, and support system about diabetes self-management and related issues. We strive to provide the highest quality, cost efficient diabetes self-management training to positively affect patient outcomes.

DMC provides outpatient diabetes self-management training with a coordinated interdisciplinary approach:

Certified Diabetes Foot Specialist
Exercise Physiologist *
Health Education Specialist *
Registered Dietitian *
Registered Nurse *

* Certified Diabetes Educators by the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators.

Services:

Inpatient Diabetes Self-Management Training is provided as part of routine patient care:

• Survival skills are provided including diabetes physiology, medications, glucose monitoring, and nutrition management.

Outpatient Diabetes Self-Management Training

• Comprehensive diabetes self-management training is provided including diabetes physiology, regulation of blood glucose, blood glucose monitoring, nutrition management, medications, activity / exercise guidelines, short term and long term complications, and the psychology of living with a chronic disease.
• Outpatient diabetes self-management training is provided in classes of less than 10 persons or in one-on-one consultations.
• Medicare reimbursable. (Patient should check with personal insurance to verify coverage)
• Recognized by the American Diabetes Association Education Recognition Program.

Continuous Glucose Monitoring System

• Physician's referral required
• Up to 288 blood glucose readings a day – up to 864 readings in a 72-hour time period.
• This diagnostic service helps get blood glucose control right!
• Medicare reimbursable. (Patient should check with personal insurance to verify coverage)
• For more information: Medtronic MiniMed's CGMS

Diabetes Support Group

• Meets third Tuesday of every month 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Diabetes Management Center classroom (3 rd floor CMMC)

• Past topics included:
  
  
  • Super Market Tours (guided tour in a local supermarket to demonstrate label reading and analysis to promote healthy, cost minded food choices)
  • Depression and Chronic Disease (presented by our Psychiatric support staff)
  • Holiday Tasting with cookbook (staff routinely cooks for Support Group)
  • Holiday Sharing with recipe swap (this December activity has become a tradition with Support Group members bringing in a holiday favorite to taste and recipe to share – and no, recipes do not have to be heart healthy on this day!)
  • Community Awareness, Recognition and Treatment of insulin resistance to delay onset of diabetes and prevent the onset of complications.
    
    
• Community health fairs (organized through CMMC Marketing Department )
• Senior Health programs (organized through CMMC Marketing Department and Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi )
• School Health programs (organized through CMMC Marketing Department and Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi )
• Camp Kandu and Not a Sweet Subject(organized through Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi ). Camp Kandu is a diabetes day camp for children with diabetes that has a strong education component for parents. While the children play under the direction of volunteer expert diabetes trained staff, the parents learn about the day-to-day living issues of having a child with diabetes. Not A Sweet Subject is an education program for school and / or daycare staff wanting to know more about safety, management, teaching and working with children with diabetes.
• Professional Education and Consultation programs have included:
  
  
  • Issues in Patient Compliance
  • Gestational Diabetes Management
  • Implications for the newborn
  • Implications for the Post Partum Woman
  • Patient Motivation
  • Diabetes in Children
  • ADA Education Recognition

Other Resources Available:

• Wound Management Center
• Outpatient Wound Management
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Center
• Inpatient Wound Management
• Comprehensive Weight Management Center
• Bariatric Surgery Center (Surgical Treatment for Obesity)
• Medical Weight Management Center (Non-surgical treatment of obesity)
• CardioPulmonary Rehabilitation Center

Diabetes Management Center requires a physician signed referral form. Click here and print.

Links

National Diabetes Education Program

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse

National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases

American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist

American Association of Diabetes Educators

Mississippi Association of Diabetes Educators

DLife Television

Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi

Comprehensive Weight Management Center