Diabetes Disease Management Program
Proper management of diabetes leads to dramatic health improvements. Our Diabetes Disease Management Program is designed to significantly improve your overall health by working in conjunction with your personal physician to provide the highest quality care.
Empowering Patients
| When you enroll in the Diabetes Disease Management Program, you benefit from a comprehensive plan of care that includes ongoing evaluation, education, and support based on your specific health needs. We are in contact with you to ensure timely and accurate lab work-ups and regular updates to track your progress. We ask you to complete brief surveys from time to time so that we can gauge how effectively your needs are being met. Our programs are patient-approved with high satisfaction ratings. A recent survey sent out to over 5,000 participants in our program reported high satisfaction ratings: |
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- Staff is helpful: 99%
- Understanding of program: 99%
- Overall satisfaction: 97%
Enhancing Support
Your care is coordinated and managed by an expert team consisting of Care Managers, dietitians and diabetic nurse educators (DNEs), who work in collaboration with your physician. Depending on your needs, our dedicated Care Managers may call you periodically to answer questions, monitor how well you are following your treatment plans, and track your blood sugar levels.
You will also have the option of participating in our diabetes core educational course designed to teach you important tools to help you better manage your health. This course provides ample time for you to get to know our Care Managers on a personal basis. Critical information garnered from regular medical chart reviews will supply us with further assessments of emerging cardiac risk factors. This knowledge has been shown to be useful in preventing hospitalizations and complications associated with heart disease in over 100,000 patients.
Engaging Physicians
The foundation of our work, the core of our philosophy, is the value we place on the patient-physician relationship—it drives everything we do. We work with your physician to closely monitor your condition through regular glucose testing, blood pressure checks, foot evaluations, eye exams, and nerve testing. We also provide physicians with best-practice recommendations based upon proven guidelines, an essential factor in ensuring you receive the best care possible.
- Eat a balanced diet: Seeing a dietitian every one to two years can be helpful.
- Exercise: A regular exercise program, at least three to four times a week for 20 to 40 minutes each session can improve blood sugars, decrease the risk of heart disease, and help you lose weight.
To learn more visit our Positive Directions program.
- Get plenty of sleep: Keeping a regular schedule and getting enough sleep will help you keep your blood glucose levels in good control.
- Quit smoking: Investigate methods available to help you stop smoking.
- Manage your stress level: Consider a stress management workshop to learn helpful coping methods.
- Practice good foot and skin care: Check your feet daily for callusses, cracks or skin breakdown. Tell your doctor if you notice any swelling in your ankles or feet.
- Weight control: Achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
- Report signs of infection to your physician: If you experience redness in areas of the skin, fevers, vomiting, etc., call your doctor or healthcare provider immediately.
- Discuss sexual problems with your physician: Find out what treatments are available from your physician.
- Stay knowledgeable about diabetes: Continue learning to maintain and improve your health, for instance attend a diabetes class or schedule visits with your diabetes educator at least once a year.
For helpful "How-To Tips," visit our Patient Education information.
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The QMed Advantage
Our disease management program provides a holistic approach—a seamless integrated model of long-term, patient-centered care—that strives to address your individual needs as it relates to your disease state, and to improve your overall health. Building on the strength of the patient-physician relationship, our programs provide best-practice recommendations based on your ongoing evaluation, which produces proven results on a consistent basis. Customized care plans are coordinated by a dedicated team of experts and are supported by patented, proprietary technology. We manage every facet of care to help you achieve your fullest potential.
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