Diabetes & Nutrition Education 
Learn how to take control and manage your health with the help of the Diabetes and Nutrition Education team at Sheridan Memorial Hospital. Our registered dietitians and certified diabetes educators will work with you to create a plan to help you achieve your personal health and wellness goals.
Diabetes education services include:
- Type 1, Type 2, pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes
- Continual glucose monitoring
- Sensor and insulin pump training
- Insulin medication management
Nutrition education services:
- Obesity, weight management and weight loss guidance including bariatric nutrition counseling
- Heart disease, high cholesterol
- Digestive diseases
- Food allergies
- Disordered eating
Why are education programs important?
Effective diabetes and nutrition education programs lead to improved health outcomes, lower health complication rates and stronger communities. By creating a collaborative environment, our team can tailor education to individual needs. Collaborating with healthcare providers across the community and SMH also enhances the impact of education efforts.
How to access services
Individuals may be referred to the Diabetes and Nutrition Education Department by their primary care physician or another healthcare provider helping to manage a patient’s medical conditions, such as diabetes or nutrition care.
Whether your diabetes and nutrition needs have existed for some time or are newly diagnosed, our program offers you and your family the knowledge and self-care skills necessary to live a healthy life.
Diabetes & Nutrition Education sessions focus on:
- Healthy eating habits
- Medication management
- Healthy lifestyle habits
- Disease management
- Coping with complications and symptoms
- Blood glucose monitoring instruction
- Insulin adjustments
- Diabetes care and management for pre-pregnancy and during pregnancy
- Nutrition counseling for pre- and post-bariatric surgical patients
- Specialized care for diagnoses such as childhood obesity, tube feedings, disordered eating behaviors and more
Nutrition is critically important for all of us, contributing to growth and development, overall health and the function of organs and body systems. Nutrition also plays a role in disease management and supports overall quality of life.
Diabetes & Nutrition Education
Phone: 307.675.2640
1333 West Fifth St., First Floor
Sheridan, WY 82801
Clinic Hours:
Wed – Fri: 8 am – 5 pm