Richardson Diabetes Services
Teaching Patients How to Manage Diabetes At Home
Located on the Methodist Campus for Continuing Care, the Diabetes Self-Management Program can help educate and support people as they work to manage diabetes and build healthy lifestyles.
Diabetes support groups, classes, events, and seminars can help:
- Educate people about diabetes, including types of diabetes, signs, diabetes symptoms, prevention, management, and treatment of diabetes
- Advise individuals on the dangers of uncontrolled diabetes
- Explain how to monitor blood sugar, what blood sugar levels should be, and how blood sugar control helps protect health
- Help create satisfying and healthful meal plans to fit individual lifestyles
- Explain how regular exercise is essential for controlling body weight and blood sugar
- Help form exercise habits people enjoy
- Teach how to prepare and inject medications, if needed
- Follow up with participants to make sure they have the tools needed to maintain good health with diabetes
Learn more about our diabetes services:
Contact Us
For questions about the Diabetes Self-Management Program and its costs, or to refer a patient to the program, contact:
Heather Beard
Methodist Campus for Continuing Care
401 W Campbell Rd.
Richardson, Texas 75080
(469) 204-6961