Diabetic Education

MLHS Diabetes Education Services teaches our patients to live with and self-manage their diabetes. The education program cover the following topics:

Diabetes disease process
Nutritional management
Physical activity
Medications, monitoring, preventing, detecting, and treating acute complications

We also assist with those diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes).

MLHS Diabetes Education Services is a recognized Diabetes Self Management Education Program by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Recognized programs, such as ours, complete a rigorous and thorough review of the education services by the ADA and have shown to achieve state of the art education adhering to national standards for its participants and are proud to provide this high quality service to our patients.

Diabetes Education Team

Laurie Richards, RN
Rita Iverson, RN
Dana Woods, RD, LD

Learn more about the Diabetic programs and treatments at Mille Lacs Health System.