Diabetes
Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Normally, your body breaks down most of the food you eat into sugar (glucose) and releases it into your bloodstream. When your blood sugar goes up, your pancreas releases insulin to help your cells use that sugar for energy.
With diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use it properly. This leads to high blood sugar levels, which over time can cause serious health problems like heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease.
There are three main types:
- Type 1 diabetes – usually diagnosed in children and young adults; the body doesn’t make insulin.
- Type 2 diabetes – more common in adults; the body doesn’t use insulin well.
- Gestational diabetes – develops during pregnancy and usually goes away after birth.
The good news? With healthy lifestyle changes, regular checkups, and proper management, people with diabetes can live long, healthy lives 1.
Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital Adult Diabetes Education Program
The OSMH Adult Diabetes Education Program (ADEC) provides support and education for the prevention and management of diabetes. We offer a multidisciplinary approach to diabetes education with a team of Certified Diabetes Nurse and Dietitian Educators that includes insulin pump trainers. Our program is committed to providing quality, compassionate care to support people with diabetes and help minimize diabetes burden. Education is based on Diabetes Clinical Practice guidelines, and our extended team includes Diabetes Physician specialists. ADEC supports people with Type1 DM, Type 2 DM, Diabetes in Pregnancy, insulin pump therapy as well as people with pre-diabetes.
Contact OSMH ADEC
| 25 Museum Drive Orillia, ON L3V 7T9 |
P: 705-325-7611 F: 705-327-9162 |
Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
Referral Process
We accept referrals from family physicians, specialists, other healthcare professionals and through self or family referral. People who have been diagnosed with impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, prediabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or gestational diabetes may be referred.
Click here to download the referral form
