Diabetes Educational Center

One of the best ways to cope with and manage diabetes is to be well educated about it Trinity Health in Minot is pushing that concept with a new Diabetes Education Center in the Town and Country Shopping Center Now being used for records storage this area near White Drug will be transformed into a center for Diabetes education and prevention Deanna Westman a Registered Nurse with Trinity says with the growing number of cases of diabetes in our area there s tremendous need for a center like this Deanna Westman Trinity Health R N CDE Around 27 million Americans have diabetes and a fraction of them millions don t even know that It is a disease that comes on very subtly very quietly and so in our office alone we can tell you we average five newly diagnosed a week that we deal with on top of the patients who ve had diabetes for years that we ve helped educate as far as the long term complications so there s a huge need in this region The news Diabetes Education Center is expected to be up and running in early 2010