Medical Minute: Diabetes Self-Management [Video]

During National Diabetes Awareness Month, OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital wants to remind its surrounding community about some key resources for patients. While having a healthy eating plan is important for anyone to be healthy, people with diabetes have even more specific health needs.

“Here at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, we have nutrition experts that are registered dietitians,” said Jill Fulk RDN, LD, CDCES, Senior Clinical Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist at Mansfield Hospital. “We are here to help people create healthy eating patterns to assist them with their health.”

One of Mansfield Hospital’s most successful education programs for patients with diabetes is called the Diabetes Self-Management and Education Support Program. According to Fulk, the program has been recognized by the American Diabetes Association for almost 25 years. “We’ve had excellent program outcomes,” said Fulk. “Medical Nutrition Therapy and the Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Program are two services that patients with diabetes need in order to self-manage their diabetes.”

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