Diabetes Transition Program

Transitioning from Pediatric Care to Adult Care

Managing a chronic, demanding disease like diabetes, during the period of emerging adulthood is fraught with upheaval as the young person is often separating geographically, emotionally, and economically away from the family home while also transitioning between pediatric and adult diabetes care providers.  Glycemic control, critical to long-term optimal outcomes for diabetes, has been shown to be suboptimal for many youth as they age into adulthood.

Hackensack Meridian Health Network offers a Diabetes Transition Program for young adults with diabetes who are between 18 to 22 years of age.  Patients are seen for medical visits by both pediatric and adult diabetes health care teams, including endocrinologists, advanced practice nurses, certified diabetes educators and licensed clinical social workers.  The Transition Team also offers free informational support groups for young adults with diabetes.  Once the patient is ready to move on to an adult diabetes care provider, the Transition Team will help them make the connection with an adult endocrinologist to ensure uninterrupted diabetes care into adulthood.  For more information, please CALL 551-996-2198.

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Hackensack University Medical Center has a number of adult endocrinologists and diabetologists who can continue the same level of care started in the MOLLY Center for Children with Diabetes and Endocrine Disorders

The MOLLY Diabetes Education/Management Center for Adults and Children at Hackensack University Medical Center gives patients access to the most up-to-date, effective methods of diabetes treatment and management.

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