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Beebe Medical Center Begins a Disabetes Support Group

12/29/09

Beebe Medical Center has started a new Support Group for people with Type II diabetes. The group, designed to offer information, as well as support to those families and patients dealing with diabetes, will meet once a month at Beebe Medical Center's Diabetes Management Center at 32060 Long Neck Road in Millsboro.

Weight loss is the topic for the first meeting on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Being overweight negatively impacts Type II diabetes and the heart. People with diabetes are at risk for heart disease. Heart Health is the support groups topic for the second meeting scheduled on February 3 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Beebe Diabetes Management Center offers educational and management services for people with diabetes. Diabetes educational group sessions are offered three times each month. Individual sessions are available as needed. Our ADA recognized program provides information for healthy eating, increasing activity, monitoring blood glucose, taking medications, healthy coping, problem solving, and preventing complications. Education is offered in different languages with assistance from interpreters. Certified Diabetes Educators teach all classes. The latest addition to our program is a group session called Diabetes Prevention, which is geared to those individuals who are pre-diabetic. For more information about the support group or services offered, call the Center's main number (302) 947-2500.