Vermont Business MagazineGifford Health Care’s Community Health Team is partnering with Vermont Blueprint for Health to offerthe CDC-approved PreventT2 diabetes prevention program, which can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes (when blood sugar levels are higher than normal) puts people at risk for developing serious health conditions, including Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
(To see if you are at risk take the test atdoihaveprediabetes.org/prediabetes-risk-test.html.)
Trained PreventT2 facilitators can teach you about small lifestyle changes—setting physical exercise goals, healthy eating, managing stress, and behavior modification—that can help reverse prediabetes. Participants in this free year-long program meet weekly for sixteen weeks followed by twice a month and then once a month meetings for a total of 22 sessions.
Learn more about this class and register on Saturday, January 13thfrom 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Gifford Conference Center. Contact Megan Sault, 728-7714 or[email protected]for more information or to sign up.
Gifford is a community hospital in Randolph, Vt., with family health centers in Berlin, Bethel, Chelsea, Randolph, Rochester, and White River Junction; and specialty services throughout central Vermont. A Federally Qualified Health Center and a Top 100 Critical Access Hospital in the country, Gifford is a full-service hospital with a 24-hour emergency department and inpatient unit; many surgical services; a day care; two adult day programs; and the 30-bed Menig Nursing Home, which was named byU.S. News and World Reportas one of the best 39 nursing homes in the country in 2012. The Birthing Center, established in 1977, was the first in Vermont to offer an alternative to traditional hospital-based deliveries, and continues to be a leader in midwifery and family-centered care.Thehospital’s mission is to improve individuals’ and community health by providing and assuring access to affordable, high-quality health care in Gifford’s service area.
Source:RANDOLPH –Gifford Health Care 12.19.2017