Diabetes Self-Management Education Services
(DSMES)

Comprehensive Pre-/Type 2 Diabetes Education Course
*OUR MOST POPULAR PROGRAM*

• Group session, delivered over 10 hours, split into four 2.5 hour sessions

• Typically covered by insurance

• Content includes, but is not limited to:

  • Overview of diabetes disease process

  • Blood glucose monitoring, including free blood glucose monitor and tutorial

  • Urine ketone testing

  • Blood glucose monitoring, use of results, and problem solving

  • Medication management

  • Preventing, detecting, and treating acute complications

  • Preventing (through risk factor reduction behavior), detecting, and treating chronic complications

  • Nutrition management

  • Meal planning

  • Label reading

  • Alcohol

  • Sweeteners

  • Lifestyle modifications

  • Macronutrient explanation

  • Carbohydrate counting

  • Physical activity and its role in insulin resistance

  • Psychosocial adjustment to diabetes

  • Setting behavior change goals to promote health

  • Developing a diabetes self-management support plan

Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)

• Group Session, delivered in one 3-hour session

• Typically covered by insurance

• Pre-requisite to this course is EMPOWERED

• Content includes, but is not limited to:

  • Heart-health

  • Whole food nutrition

  • Physical activity

  • Food labels

  • Macronutrients

  • Benefits of fiber

  • Take-out & dining out

  • Snacks/Beverages

• 60-minute session, once per month, as needed

• Group sessions for support & maintenance

• Focal topic varies monthly

• In-person or remote

• RD/CDCES led group session

• 30-minute initial planning meeting/call/zoom

• Macronutrient adjustments

• Weekly check-ins

• Unlimited texts