Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV

Latest Updates

Discussion

January 23, 2013

Institute plans diabetes classes in southern W.Va.

Associated Press

CHARLESTON — Southern West Virginia Medicare recipients who have diabetes can learn about the disease and how to manage it through a series of free classes.

Families and caregivers also can attend the diabetes education classes, which will be offered primarily in 13 counties.

The classes are part of a two-year project led by the West Virginia Medical Institute called Everyone with Diabetes Counts.

The institute said Wednesday that the goal is to educate 6,000 Medicare recipients in the designated counties who have diabetes over the next 18 months.

Classes are scheduled to begin at the end of January in Jackson, Mason, Wayne, Lincoln, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, McDowell, Mercer, Summers, Monroe, Greenbrier and Nicholas counties.

A class schedule is posted online at www.wvdiabeteseducation.org . The schedule also can be obtained by calling 855-376-9382.

Text Only
Latest Updates
AP Video
Probe Begins After Conn. Commuter Trains Crash NTSB Begins Investigation Into Conn. Train Crash Lotto Fever Sweeps the Country Conn. Commuter Trains Collide; 60 Go to Hospital Coffee Run Leads to Hatchet Hitchhiker Arrest Fmr. IRS Head Insists No Politics in Targeting CDC: Fecal Bacteria Common in Swimming Pools $1 Million in Jewels Stolen at Cannes Film Fest NM Mom Chases Down Child Abductor Raw: Crash Sends Car Into Fla. Pool Raw: Obama Sits Down With Elementary Kids Raw: Bear Falls From Tampa Tree Ousted IRS Chief: Errors Not Caused by Politics Terror Suspect Due in Court in Idaho Friday Raw: Driver Ejected From Truck, Over Bridge Could Tobacco Be the Next Biofuel? Wash. State Releases Draft Rules for Legal Pot Dying Man's Blinks Lead to Murder Conviction Officials: Texas Tornado Likely Had 200 Mph Wind Brothers Arrested in NOLA Parade Shooting
Business Marquee
College Sports
Pro Sports
Facebook