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Diabetes Education Programs

Affinity Health Plan Members with diabetes can be referred to the following diabetes education and management programs. The referral form should be addressed to the physician listed on the chart.

 
BRONX
 
Program: The Clinical Diabetes Center
Inpatient/Outpatient Self Management
Skills Education Program
  5 sessions
Address: Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
A Division of Montefiore Medical Center
1825 Eastchester Rd
Suite 1076
Bronx, NY 10641
Phone: 718 904-2114  
Contact(s): Erika Verde, Coordinator
Physician(s): Dr. Rincon (Fellow)
718 920-7766

Dr. Sanger (Attending)
718 920-4664
Program: Bronx Lebanon Diabetes Clinic
  Program lasts 7 weeks.
English session every Tuesday 9-11:30am
Spanish session every Friday 9-11:30am
Address: Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
1770 Grand Concourse, Suite 2G
Bronx, NY 10457
Phone:  
Contact(s): Alethea Shepardson, NP
718 960-1330

Didi Wolter (Nutritionist)
718 960-1262
Physician(s): David Erani, MD
Maria Palace, MD
Program: Jacobi Ambulatory Care
Diabetes Education
Address: North Bronx HealthCare Network
1400 Pelham Parkway
Bldg 5 2nd Floor-2A11
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: 718 918-5700  
Contact(s): Marie Mendoza/Carol Stockard, NP
718 918-6075
 
NEW YORK
 
Program: The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
  4 sessions
Address: Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York
Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion
1150 St. Nicholas Ave (at 168th Street)
New York, NY 10032
Website: www.nbdiabetes.org
E-Mail: diabetes@columbia.edu
Phone: 212 851-5494 Fax: 212 851-5493
Contact(s): Stefani Infeld,
Practice Manager
Physician(s): Robin Goland, MD,
Co-Director

Rudolph Leibel, MD,
Co-Director
 
KINGS
 
Program: NYM Diabetes Education and Resource Center
Address: NY Methodist Hospital
263 Seventh Avenue (Suite 5A)
5th Floor Office Pavilion
Brooklyn NY 11215
Website: www.nym.org/services/diabetes/diabetes.html
Phone: 718 780-3389  
Contact(s): Renee Bachman
Diabetes Educator
Physician(s): Dr Khan
Program: Interfaith Medical Center-Brooklyn Jewish Hospital
  No Longer has diabetic clinic *only nutrition classes
Address: Interfaith Medical Center-Brooklyn Jewish Hospital
555 Prospect Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Website: www.interfaithmedical.com
Phone: 718 613-6845 Fax: 718 613-6985
Contact(s): Judy Aries
Program: Diabetes Care Center
Address: Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
374 Stockholm Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Website: www.wyckoffhospital.org
Phone: 718 963-7671  
 
RICHMOND
 
Program: Diabetic Self-Management Program
  Total 10 visits /year
Address: Staten Island University Hospital
1460 Victory Blvd.
Staten Island, NY 10301

Adult Diabetes Treatment Center
242 Mason Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10305
Website: www.siuh.edu
Phone: 718 442-0300 option 8
718 226-1547
Fax: 718 981-5047
Contact(s): Deborah Parisi
Mary Gundersen
Physician(s): Dr. Carmen Torrado (Peds Endo)

Adult Diabetes Treatment Center
Dr. Shahed Quyyumi
718 226-6342
Program: Diabetes Management Clinic
  Sessions are on Mondays 9-5pm
Address: Sisters of Charity St. Vincent,
Bayley Seton Campus
75 Vanderbilt Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10304
Phone: 718 818-2095 Fax: 718-904-2827
Contact(s): Barbara Gattoullo,
Nurse Practitioner
 
WESTCHESTER
 
Program: Self-Management Education Program
  4-6 sessions
Address: Hudson Valley Hospital
Joslin Diabetes Center Outpatient

The Medical Center at Yorktown
225 Veterans Road, Suite 201
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

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822 Rt 22
Hopewell Junction, N.Y 12533
Website: www.hvhc.org/joslindiabetescenter.html
Phone: 914 962-1320 (Yorktown Heights)
845-226-6658 (Hopewell Junction)
 
Contact(s): Mary McDonald
Program: The Diabetes Education & Treatment Center
Address: White Plains Hospital Center
Davis Avenue at East Post Road
White Plains, NY 10601
Website: www.wphospital.org/guide/diabetes.html
Phone: 914 681-1228  
Program: Diabetes Specialty Center
Address: St. John's Riverside Hospital
967 North Broadway
Yonkers, NY 10701
Website: www.riversidehealth.org
Phone: 914 964-4558  
Contact(s): Susan Austin
 
ORANGE
 
Program: The Stanley S. Dunkelman, MD
Diabetes Treatment Center
Address: Orange Regional Medical Center
Horton Campus
60 Prospect Avenue
Middletown, NY 10940
Website: www.ormc.org
Phone: 845 342-7555  
Contact(s): Pat Jarow
Diane Roden
 
NASSAU
 
Program: Diabetes Club
  Meets once a month with different speakers on different topics PCP referral needed
Address: Nassau University Medical Center
2201 Hempstead Turnpike
East Meadow, NY 11554
Phone: 516 572-6504 Fax: 516 572-0082
Physician(s): Dr. Hupart (in March)
 
SUFFOLK
 
Program: Diabetes Self-Management
Address: Southside Hospital
301 East Main Street
Bayshore, NY 11706
Website: www.southsidehospital.org
Phone: 631 968-3136  
Contact(s): Felicia Antignano-Harz,
RN – Coordinator,
Patient/Staff Education

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