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Diabetes Self-Management Education Services
(DSMES)

1. EMPOWERED

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

2. ADVANCED NUTRITION

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

3. GROUP MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT

  • 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

4. INDIVIDUAL MAINTENANCE

  • 30-minute initial planning meeting/call/zoom

  • Macronutrient adjustments

  • Weekly check-ins

  • Unlimited texts

EMPOWERED
ADVANCED NUTRITION
GROUP MAINTENANCE
INDIIDUAL MAINTENANCE
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SMALL SESSIONS

  • 90-minute sessions, dates & times to be announced

  • Pre-requisite to any of the below courses: EMPOWERED & ADVANCED NUTRITION

  • Sample session titles:

    • Food Label & Ingredient Detective

    • Grocery Store Guide

    • Macros 101

    • CARBS 102

    • PROTEIN 102

    • FAT 102

    • Focus on Fiber!

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