Colleen King, RD, provides nutritional counseling for patients with diabetes.
Orange City Area Health System is your partner in diabetes prevention and care. Your family physician can help you monitor prediabetes and diabetes conditions, and also refer you to our Diabetes Educator, Cari Roorda, RN, who is trained on insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring systems.
Services offered by our Diabetes program include:
- DSME Classes covering:
- Overview of Diabetes
- Home Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Healthy Eating habits
- Reading Food labels/ Carbohydrate Counting
- Exercise
- Diabetes Medications and insulin training
- Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)
- High Blood Sugar (Hyperglycemia)
- Diabetes Complications Prevention
- Sick Day Care
- Stress Management
Additional services:
- Insulin Pump Training
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring Training
- Diabetes review appointments for those needing a “boost” with their motivation
- Pre-diabetes education