Health Coaching - Diabetes Program
Whether you have type 1 or type 2, living with diabetes is not always easy. Everyday choices like what to eat can affect blood sugar and overall health. Meridian's Diabetes Disease Management program provides you with the tools, support and resources you need to stay healthier longer at home.
We will reach out to you to explain the program, confirm your eligibility and get you enrolled. A Health Coach will fill out an assessment and make a personal care plan for you based on your condition, lifestyle, and readiness to change.
Your health coach can help:
- You understand your medications and why it is important to take them as prescribed
- Learn how to check and monitor A1C levels
- Notice signs of low and high blood glucose levels
- Blood pressure and cholesterol management
- Nutrition coaching for carbohydrate counting and weight management
- Support tobacco cessation
- Individualized goal setting and management to reduce risk factors such as high blood pressure & high cholesterol levels, glycemic control, excess weight, tobacco use and physical inactivity
- Preventive care like flu and pneumonia vaccinations, preventative screenings
- Education materials to help you learn more about your condition and self-management, and much more!
Throughout the program, your Health Coach will work with you to point out any nonmedical needs you may have, barriers to care plan compliance and will address questions about condition management. You can opt in or out of the program at any time, and you are welcome to come back if you change your mind.
If you need help quitting smoking, please talk to your doctor about medications and programs that may be right for you. Meridian members may also call Meridian Member Services at 888-437-0606 (TTY: 711) for help and information about quitting smoking.