St. Luke’s has six registered dietitians and certified diabetes care and education specialists on staff. The program has been providing care since 2000, offering self-management education and support, an intensive diabetes management program, medical nutrition therapy, a Medicare diabetes prevention program and intensive behavioral therapy for obese patients. The system recently developed a program to control diabetes in its most challenging patients, those with an A1C higher than 9%. Patients enrolled in the program are closely monitored through ongoing phone and email contact, with glucose readings continuously reviewed by physicians.
