 The
Stark Diabetes Center Adult Diabetes Education
Program recently received the prestigious
American Diabetes
Association Education Recognition Certificate. The program
has been continuously certified since it was originally
recognized in 1993.
The
Education Recognition Program formally identifies education
programs that meet quality standards established by the National
Diabetes Advisory Board. Programs that achieve recognition
status have a staff of knowledgeable health professionals who
can provide patients with comprehensive information about
diabetes management.
The process gives professionals a
national standard by which to measure the quality of services
they provide. Meeting these standards requires a team approach
to education and involves Certified Diabetes Educators,
dieticians, physical therapists and social workers. The
continued ADA recognition is an honor to the entire diabetes
education team, which includes nurses and certified diabetes
educators Sidney Bailey and Sandra Green, registered dietician
and certified diabetes educator Lynn Maarouf, and Tracy Cook, a
licensed clinical social worker.
The Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher
Stark Diabetes Center is committed to leadership in diabetes
care, education and research. The Stark Diabetes Center is
supported by a generous grant from the Stark Foundation of
Orange, Texas. Strategic objectives of the center are to
provide multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art health care to
people with diabetes in Southeast Texas; to develop a diabetes
education program that not only serves patients in Southeast
Texas but throughout the state through telehealth technology;
and to foster basic research in diabetes.
(reposted from http://www.utmb.edu/impact/stories/06JAN2/starkaward.htm)
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