Available Services:

Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT): Our comprehensive program, Basics, provides well rounded information to help patients achieve and maintain optimal blood glucose control. Topics discussed include nutrition, exercise, blood glucose testing, diabetes-related complications, wellness, and overall self management skills. Each Medicare Part B recipient with Diabetes has available benefits to cover the program. Please contact us at 815-599-6253 to review your DSMT benefits today.

Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT): MNT is not about dieting. Instead, it’s about managing your disease through a healthy approach to your eating habits and lifestyle. Available through FHN, Medicare Part B covers nutrition services provided by Registered Dietitians, a nutrition expert on disease management.

Other services include insulin pump therapy, blood glucose testing, insulin instruction and continuous blood glucose sensor monitoring.

Diabetes Education may be covered by private health insurance. Medicare Part B does cover Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Self Management education. Interested persons should check their insurance coverage. The program is housed at FHN Memorial Hospital. A physician referral is required.

FHN offers the diabetes programs listed below free of charge. These programs are not as comprehensive as the Diabetes Self-Management Training.

Pre-Diabetes Class: Small Steps. Big Rewards.
The pre-diabetes program Small Steps. Big Rewards. is a national pre-diabetes education program, a joint program of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This two-hour class helps those individuals at risk for Type 2 diabetes take the first step toward preventing diabetes and living a longer, healthier life. You should attend if you have one or more of these diabetes risk factors:

• You have been told you have high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol.
• You exercise fewer than three times a week.
• You have a parent or sibling who has diabetes.
• You are are over the age of 45 and are overweight.

FHN Adult Diabetes Support Group
The Adult Diabetes support group is for anyone in the general public who has diabetes. The group meets the first Monday of every month at FHN Memorial Hospital in the Globe Room, unless otherwise noted. To see the topics and meeting times, click here. No advance registration is required.

Cost: Varies
Referral Needed? Yes
Contact: Nicolette Drane, RD, LDN, CDE
Phone Number: 815-599-6253
Email: ndrane@fhn.org

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