Diabetes Education & Research for Long, Healthy Lives

Dr. Amy Walters directs HDC’s Behavioral Health Services. Adding a behavioral health component to your diabetes education helps you make and sustain positive changes necessary for your successful diabetes self-management. You can benefit from these services if you have good intentions but are having trouble following through with your diabetes plan; you are struggling with the emotional or behavioral components of diabetes care; or you are having difficulty managing your diabetes, despite support from other health professionals (such as dietitian, physician, diabetes educator). You can request these services by calling our Boise office at 208-331-1155.

HDC’s Foot Care Program includes filing callouses, trimming nails, checking for nerve damage and assessing overall foot health. Foot care is offered at these locations:

Boise Sites / Mornings:

Wynwood Alterra - 739 E. Parkcenter Blvd.
Boise Senior Center – 690 E. Robbins Road.
Risen Christ Church - 11511 W. Lake Hazel Road

Boise Sites / Afternoons:

Humphreys Diabetes Center - 1226 River Street
Heatherwood – 5277 Kootenai Street
Mountain View Church – 2823 N. Cole Road
North Gate Senior Village – 5901 Ellens Ferry Road
St. Mark’s Church – 7500 Northview
BonAventure – 5890 N. Five Mile Road

Meridian Site:
Humphreys Diabetes Center – 520 S. Eagle Road, Ste. 1229 (in St. Luke’s Meridian)

Garden City Site:
Mallard Point – 506 E. 50th Street

Eagle Site:
Eagle Senior Center – 312 E. State Street

Cost: $30 – Cash or check payment accepted.
Dates & times vary. Please call 331-1155 ext. 21 to schedule an appointment.

This technology provides the patient and the healthcare team an overall picture of what is occurring with the patient’s 24-hour glucose levels by providing up to 288 blood sugar readings each day! These readings are valuable to trouble shoot and evaluate factors that affect daily trends in blood glucose with such events as food, exercise, stress and medications. Also helps identify nighttime lows that may go undetected. Call (208) 331-1155 (Boise office) to schedule an appointment.

If you are a new patient, or it’s been over a year since you have been to HDC, please fill out our Patient Forms and bring with you to your appointment.

This test measures a patient’s average blood sugars over a 3-month period. Quick and easy finger-stick blood sample. Only $16 and results in 6 minutes. Requires an order from your physician. Results can be faxed to your physician. The American Diabetes Association recommends patients to have the test 2-4 times each year. The goal is to have a 7.0 or lower.

Offered with both an Registered Nurse and Registered Dietitian. These individual consultations provide respectful and individualized services to those who are vision or hearing impaired, have memory or cognitive deficiencies, language or cultural barriers.

Call (208) 331-1155 (Boise office) or (208) 884-4220 (Meridian & Nampa offices) to schedule an individualized appointment. A physician’s referral is required in order to bill insurance.

New patients, or patients who have not been to HDC in the last year, need to fill out our Patient Forms and bring with them to their appointment.

For those new to insulin, changing insulin or needing insulin adjustments for better control.

Call (208) 331-1155 (Boise office) or (208) 884-4220 (Meridian & Nampa offices) to schedule an individualized appointment. A physician’s referral is required in order to bill insurance.

If you are a new patient, or it’s been a year since you have been to HDC, please fill out our Patient Forms and bring with you to your appointment.

Assessment and instruction on meal planning and carbohydrate counting. Focuses on individual needs.

Call (208) 331-1155 (Boise office) or (208) 884-4220 (Meridian & Nampa offices) to schedule an individualized appointment. A physician’s referral is required in order to bill insurance.

If you are a new patient, or it’s been over a year since you have been to HDC, please fill out our Patient Forms and bring with you to your appointment.

Choose To Lose is based on one-on-one visits with our registered dietitians. Clients meet for one hour for the first session and then for 30 minutes at an additional 6 sessions. Each education session is designed to help clients create new, healthier eating and life-style habits. The goal is slow, consistent weight loss that lasts!

Seven-week basic program is $310. Additional weeks can be purchased, five for $150, 10 for $300. Contact us at info@hdiabetescenter.org or (208) 331-1155 ext. 32 for more information or to schedule an appointment.

These consultations with registered nurses (RNs) cover basic self-management skills for patients who are unable to attend group education and provides troubleshooting for complex care needs. Reasons individuals may not be able to attend group education include hearing and visual impairment, cognitive deficiencies, complex health issues requiring individual case management, and multiple health or social problems.

Call (208) 331-1155 (Boise office) or (208) 884-4220 (Meridian & Nampa offices) to schedule an individualized appointment. A physician’s referral is required in order to bill insurance.

If you are a new patient, or it’s been over a year since you have been to HDC, please fill out our Patient Forms and bring with you to your first appointment.

HDC nurses and dietitians travel to Elmore County Hospital in Mountain Home once a week to provide individual counseling and diabetes self-management classes. They also travel to the St. Luke’s Family clinic in Fruitland on Friday’s to meet with patients in one-on-one education sessions.

If you are a new patient, or it’s been over a year since you have been to HDC, please fill out our Patient Forms and bring with you to your appointment.