The mission of the Education Department is to provide patients with comprehensive information and quality instruction about medication, diet, nutrition, and exercise for their individual diabetes self-management; to empower patients with the knowledge and the ability to understand their diabetes, to avoid chronic or acute complications and to achieve and optimum health status.
Diabetes
Diabetes is a disease that affects your body’s ability to produce or use insulin. Insulin is a hormone. When your body turns the food you eat into energy (also called sugar or glucose), insulin is released to help transport this energy to the cells.
