Middletown, NY – Orange Regional Medical Center will offer a free,12-month Diabetes Prevention Program beginning March 2, 2020 and March 6, 2020. Sessions will take place at Orange Regional Medical Center’s Community Health Education Center at 110 Crystal Run Road in Middletown, NY. The Monday sessions will meet from 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. and the Friday sessions will meet from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Participants may select one of the two sessions. This program is family friendly and we encourage parents and grandparents caring for children to attend. A play space will be available in the room for small children.
Pre-diabetes is a serious health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough, yet, to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. Approximately 84 million American adults have pre-diabetes. Of those with pre-diabetes, 90% don’t know they have it. Orange Regional’s Diabetes Prevention Program can help individuals make lifestyle changes to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes and other serious health problems.
Orange Regional has adopted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention’s National Diabetes Prevention Program. The diabetes prevention program is designed to teach individuals how to make better food choices, increase physical activity and provide helpful ways to cope with problems and stress. The program lasts one year, with 16 sessions taking place once a week and six to eight more sessions meeting once a month. Qualified participants will work together to achieve their goals, under the guidance of our certified lifestyle coaches.
Criteria for entry into the Diabetes Prevention Program include:
- •A positive screening for pre-diabetes based on the CDC Pre-diabetes Screening Test. For more details visit www.ormc.org/dpp
- •Being at least 18-years- old
- •Being overweight (body mass index ≥25; ≥23 if Asian)
- •Having NO previous diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 diabetes
- •Having a blood test result in the pre-diabetes range within the past year:
- •Hemoglobin A1C: 5.7%–6.4%
- •Fasting plasma glucose: 100–125 mg/dL or
- •Two-hour plasma glucose (after a 75 gm glucose load): 140–199 mg/dL
- •History of diagnosed gestational diabetes during a previous pregnancy
To learn more about the Diabetes Prevention Program or to find out if you qualify, please call 845-333-2711, then press 2 or visit www.ormc.org/dpp.
About Orange Regional Medical Center
Orange Regional features seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs approximately 3,300 healthcare professionals. In addition to inpatient services, highlights of Orange Regional include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Orange Regional Medical Group with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Orange Regional was named by Healthgrades as one of the 100 best hospitals nationally for cardiac intervention and General Surgery and was a recipient of the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Orange Regional also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 and 2020 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ placing the hospital in the top 5 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals assessed nationwide for its superior clinical performance. In 2017, Orange Regional was named the Most Beautiful Hospital in the US and is recognized by US News & World Report as a Best Regional Hospital. It is a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7; the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS), which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2018 and 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about ORMC, visit www.ormc.org.
