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Whether you are a busy professional seeking easy access to diabetes support or a physician looking for a topnotch specialty center for your diabetes patients, we can help.

We are committed to providing individualized, personal care to each person we see. Our patients and referring physicians are an important part of our team. All working together, we can identify, delay or prevent complications from diabetes.

Our Philosophy
Diabetes is a disease in which the person with diabetes has 99% of the responsibility for their care and 100% of the consequences of how ell they do.

Diabetes is not a subject to be mastered or a set of skills to be learned. Diabetes is a lived experience inseparable from life, family, work, worries, hopes and dreams.

Diabetes Education in the Diabetes Center at Mercy strives to teach people to live with their disease successfully as they define success.

We try to accept people where they are, respect their efforts and the reality of their experience. We ask questions and listen to responses. We offer choices and honor the choices that our patients make. We strive to maintain a loving and empowering relationship with our patients.

We ask our patients:

  • What their questions are
  • What their fears are
  • What they want to accomplish

We provide:

  • A problem-solving approach to living with diabetes
  • Skills education focused on daily care and patient specific needs
  • The latest information in diabetes care and management
  • Personal support and 24/7 access for questions or advice

We employ the latest:

  • Technological advances
  • Pharmaceutical products
  • Educational resources

We believe that the person with diabetes has the ability to control his/her blood glucose as well as he or she wants to. Our job is coach, resource, and cheerleader.

Our medical director, Philip Levin MD, is board certified in Endcrinology and Metabolism. His interests are in the clinical care and the research of diabetes, lipids, osteoporosis and other metabolic disorders. He has conducted numerous clinical research studies and has written many publications in the field. He is also a member of the American Diabetes Association.

Linda Yerardi, MS, RD, LD, CDE is the Director of Diabetes Education. She is a Registered Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator with more than 10 years of experience in nutrition counseling. As a member of the Association of Diabetes Educators and the American Dietetic Association, Linda specializes in identifying individual approaches to managing diabetes.

Under these key individuals' direction, we provide:

  • comprehensive diabetes management services
  • diagnosis, treatment, education and support for diabetes and related disorders
  • clinical trials in the newest areas of diabetes treatment including the national Diabetes Prevention Trial, Type-1 (DPT-1).
  • close work with Mercy's Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology serving as a resource to patients

We also work closely with other Mercy specialists including: