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The Diabetes Education Centre at HHCC provides basic to advanced level diabetes education and ongoing care to children and families, youth and adults who are at risk or have Type 1 diabetes, pre-diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, pre-gestational diabetes, and insulin pump starts and management. Our program consists of a multidisciplinary team including Registered Nurses CDE, Registered Dietitians CDE, Social Workers and physicians. 

Diabetes is a disease that happens when your body either isn’t able to produce insulin (a hormone produced in your pancreas which transports sugar to the cells in your body to be used as energy) or can’t properly use the insulin it produces.

There are three main types of Diabetes:
  • Type 2 – Is the most common form of Diabetes which occurs when your body produces insulin but may not be able to use it effectively
  • Type 1 – In this type of Diabetes, the body doesn’t produce insulin. People with Type 1 need insulin injections to help their body function properly
  • Gestational Diabetes – This is Diabetes that happens during pregnancy. It is usually lasts for only the length of the pregnancy
Services are available for:
  • Pre-Diabetes
  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • Type 1 Diabetes
  • Paediatrics (children)
  • Diabetes in pregnancy and gestational diabetes
  • Insulin Pump Therapy
Appointments are available on a self-referral basis; specialty clinics including endocrinology and pediatrics require a physician referral.

Access our referral form
Access more information on Diabetes
Access more information on illness management on a pump and illness management using injections
We acknowledge that our hospital resides within the traditional territory and ancestral lands of the Tionontati, Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe peoples.

We also acknowledge that various municipalities within the County of Dufferin reside within the treaty lands named under the Haldimand Deed of 1784 and two of the Williams Treaties of 1818: Treaty 18: the Nottawasaga Purchase, and Treaty 19: the Ajetance Treaty.

We also acknowledge the land which forms the Town of Caledon is also part of the traditional Territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee Peoples, and the Anishnabek of the Williams Treaties.

This land is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

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