Patient Education

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Patient Education

Blood Glucose Monitoring

Building a Balanced Meal

Carbohydrate Counting

Checking Your Blood Sugar

Cholesterol Information

Conquering the Grocery Store

Foot Care

Insulin Injection Know-how

Managing and Preventing Hypoglycemia

Reading a Nutrition Facts Label

What is Diabetes?

What is Pre-Diabetes?

Our Diabetes Program was created to enhance the education and support offered to our patients suffering with diabetes. We are wholeheartedly focused on improving the lives of our patients with diabetes. Our Diabetes Program goals are to:

reduce the occurrence of serious illness that could result in hospital stays and ER visits
reduce diabetes-related complications, such as blindness, amputations, kidney failure and heart disease
provide state-of-the-art treatment, monitoring and education
promote self-management and a team approach to diabetes care
reduce your health care costs
and, most important to us: make your life with diabetes better and longer

Our clinic is recently recognized by the NCQA and ADA having met national quality standards in diabetes care.

To receive this unique recognition, our providers continuously demonstrate a level of diabetes care exceeding the goals set forth by the NCQA. The NCQA’s Diabetes Physician Recognition Program’s standards can be viewed here.

Patient Care

Since our diabetes program’s inception in 2005, an estimated 350 patients have completed our program. Patients in the diabetes program work closely and meet regularly with our diabetes educator. We have four available options for patients to receive education. Please click on any of the following options for additional details:

Your individual needs and schedule will determine which option(s) is best suited for your diabetes care.

In addition to the diabetes education programs listed above, we recommend the following on-line multimedia education modules as an additional resource to our patients:

To schedule an appointment with the Diabetes Educator, or to attend any of the group or educational events, please call our office at 816-842-4440.

Patient Resources for Diabetes Management

Patient Resources

Listed below are links to other health resources on the internet that will provide assistance for the insured, uninsured and underinsured.

Missouri Health Insurance Pool Web Site for Uninsured

Missouri Medicaid MoHealthnet Web site

Official Government Web Site for Medicare

Coupons for Discounts on Medication Coupons

Listed below are links to community support programs that are available at several of the hospitals that serve North Kansas City and the patients of Clay Platte Family Medicine Clinic.

NorthKansasCityHospitalLogo Online Course Catalog Support Groups