St Luke's Diabetes Center

St. Luke's Diabetes Center offers complete outpatient services for adults and children with all types of diabetes, including:

• Screening
• Individual care instructions
• Diet and meal planning
• Helpful Classes
• Resources for supplies and services

We offer individual appointments to adults with Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational (diabetes during pregnancy) diabetes to best meet your needs. We always welcome your family and loved ones who support you to the visits.

Our professional bilingual (Spanish) staff of nurses and dieticians works closely with referring primary care physicians to help patients manage symptoms and care for diabetes. We assist with referrals to specialists, including podiatrists, endocrinologists and ophthalmologists.

Diabetes changes over time. We can help you stay in control, always.

St. Luke's Diabetes Education Program
Room 230
3555 Cesar Chavez Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 641-6826 or
Email recinos@sutterhealth.org

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Learning About Diabetes  |  Diabetes Checklist: Do You Have Diabetes?

Learning About Diabetes

Proper control and management of your diabetes can significantly reduce complications of diabetes – including eye disease, kidney disease and nerve damage.

When diabetes is a new diagnosis:
Individual sessions with a nurse and a dietician will give you the information to start taking control of your diabetes.

• How to use the glucometer machine to check your blood sugar
• How to take action to prevent serious complications of diabetes
• Meal planning and basic nutrition
• Weight management
• Medications management.
• Lifestyle changes

When you have had diabetes, but your care needs changed:

• How to adjust what you do to stay in control of your diabetes
• Answers for medication questions
• Support for making lifestyle changes
• How to prevent or manage the complications of long-term diabetes

When you have Gestational Diabetes:You will be seen quickly for this serious condition that is a threat to you and your baby:

• How to use the glucometer machine to check your blood sugar
• When to check your blood sugar
• The target numbers for your blood sugar
• How to take action to prevent any complications of diabetes
• Meal planning specifically related to your pregnancy and the diabetes

Other services:

• Insulin pumps
• Continuous blood glucose monitoring

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Diabetes Checklist: Do You Have Diabetes?

If you have TWO or more of these symptoms, you could have diabetes. If you have diabetes, it can be treated with diet, exercise and medication.

• Extreme thirst
• Frequent urination
• Extreme weight gain or loss
• Tiredness
• Blurred vision
• Slow healing cuts or sores
• Frequent infections
• Overweight

Ask your health care provider for a blood glucose screening to test for diabetes.

For referral to a doctor, or for more information about St. Luke's Diabetes Center, contact us at 415-641-6826 or email recinos@sutterhealth.org

Who gets Diabetes?
21,000 people in San Francisco have diabetes.

You are more likely to get diabetes if you are:

• Over 40
• Black, Hispanic or Native American
• Overweight
• Family history (if someone in your family has diabetes)

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