Signature Healthcare
Signature Healthcare's Diabetes Center is recognized by the American Diabetes Association for its comprehensive team approach, Self-Management Education (SME) and coordination for diabetes and pre-diabetes.
Whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, managing diabetes is a balancing act. You need to balance food, exercise, medication and stress. It is vital to check your blood sugar levels to know how well you are managing your diabetes. Signature Healthcare offers tools to manage your diabetes and your healthy eating habits. We offer a multi-disciplinary team approach that includes Board Certified Endocrinologists, Advanced Practice Providers, Certified Diabetes Educators and Registered Dietitians/Nutritionists.
Consultation is provided to assess a patient’s medical and educational needs with the goal of improving diabetes self-management skills and quality of life.
A full evaluation includes:
We offer diabetes classes and provide insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring as appropriate.
In diabetes, the pancreas, an organ near the stomach, may not make enough insulin, or the body is unable to use the insulin it does make. As a result, the glucose remains in the blood stream and causes blood sugar levels to rise.
Type 1 diabetes used to be known as insulin dependent mellitus or juvenile diabetes. Only 5-10% of people who have diabetes have type 1. With type 1 diabetes, the body attacks its own insulin-making cells. This means that the pancreas can no longer make insulin. Type 1 usually occurs in a child, teenager or young adult, but it can occur in older adults too. People with Type 1 diabetes need to take insulin daily for life, to control their blood sugar levels.
Type 2 diabetes used to be called non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus or adult onset diabetes in the past, but a growing number of children and teens now also have type 2 diabetes. It occurs in 90-95% of all people with diabetes. With Type 2 diabetes, the body makes insulin but it may not make enough or the body does not respond appropriately to the insulin produced.
Risk Factors of Type 2 diabetes include: