Stark Center's Adult Diabetes Education Program earns national recognition
JAN. 6, 2006--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.