Pen Bay Diabetes and Nutrition Care Center provides both nutritional counseling for a wide variety of medical conditions and diabetes education in individual or group settings. 

Learn about the diabetes education classes available after you complete your one-on-one diabetes consults. Call to speak to a Registered Dietitian or Diabetes Nurse Educator at 390-4790.

 In the Survival Skills class, you will learn:

• Practical advice on more efficient and accurate blood sugar testing. 
• Diabetes Medications - How do the various pills, insulin, and other medications work, when are they needed, and how best to take them.
• How to prevent long term complications including blindness, heart attack, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, amputation.
• What to do when you are sick.
• How to prevent and treat low blood sugar.
• How to cope with this chronic disease.
• When to know to call the doctor.

Class dates (a consultation and assessment is required before attending a class):

Classes meet at Kno-Wal-Lin Home Care and Hospice, 170 Pleasant St., Rockland, 04841.

 For more information, visit pbmc.org/diabetes.