For Professionals

MyMichigan – Your Partner in Diabetes Care

Referral Opportunities

When should you refer your patient to MyMichigan?

• If you suspect your patient has diabetes – MyMichigan laboratories offer blood glucose testing at several locations.
• When you first diagnose your patient with diabetes – MyMichigan offers patient education and training to help newly diagnosed patients learn to manage their disease.
• If your patient has been living with diabetes for years – They may benefit from returning to diabetes patient education, to get updates on the latest developments in medication, meters and other new tools to help them better manage their condition.
• If your patient is at a higher risk for developing diabetes or needs help managing an overweight condition – MyMichigan offers individual nutrition counseling with a registered dietitian.
• If your patient is having difficulty maintaining normal glucose levels – MyMichigan offers yearly individual updates with patients to fine-tune their care as well as continuous glucose monitoring, to help you assess and adjust your patient’s therapy
• If your patient’s lifestyle or treatment changes – MyMichigan offers a variety of patient counseling and training, including insulin pump training.
• If your patient would benefit from an endocrinology referral – referrals may be made directly to our specialists.

Management Tools

Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
This technology, available at MyMichigan Diabetes Centers, records a patient’s glucose values continuously for up to 14 days, with computer downloading of the data for analysis and interpretation.

Sensors are inserted just beneath the skin by a diabetes educator. Patients are taught how to enter exercise, food and blood glucose monitor data at home. The monitor, about the size of a pager, collects blood glucose data for up to 14 days. When the patient returns to the Diabetes Center, the sensor is removed and downloaded. A written report is then provided to the referring physician. 

For more information about the Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, call the Diabetes Center at (989) 839-3123 or toll free at (800) 727-3123.