| Would you like to feel
that you have better control of your diabetes? Would you like to
come to the clinic for your routine diabetes check up and take care
of as many visits (e.g. lab, medical provider, shoes, dietitian, and
education) as possible in that one day?
Your Min-No-Aya-Win Clinic staff
would also like to improve your diabetes care, making your visits
more productive and efficient. We want to provide you with the best
possible care with the hope and expectation that it will result in
better control of your diabetes.
So here’s the plan:
In January 2003 we will start
Diabetes Clinic at Min-No-Aya-Win (in the future we also hope to
offer this service at CAIR).
What is diabetes clinic? It is an
intensive screening and education process. The day before the
clinic, the client’s chart is reviewed and a list is made of all
the needed labs/tests for which the client is due. This is reviewed
with the client when they come into the clinic. The client has those
tests done that same day if possible.
The client’s medical provider will
have the concise information available to review with the patient so
that their visit is easy and productive. As part of the day’s
visit the client will also be able to see the dietitian, the
diabetes educator, and be fitted for shoes.
The recommended routine care for
diabetes is a yearly physical exam, and a diabetes checkup every 3
months. Scheduling these recommended visits during a Diabetes Clinic
time will make it more likely that a client will receive all
services as quickly as possible.
If you would like to schedule
yourself for a Diabetes Clinic visit, you can call Paula at the
medical desk. In January we will only have a couple of providers
offering this service. This will give us some time to make sure that
we have a good flow in our clinic system. We plan to move quickly
into having all of the medical providers be able to offer this
service.
We hope that Diabetes Clinic will
help you have a happy and healthy new year!
Mary Jo Koszarek RN-CNP, CDE
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