Diabetes Shoppe

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TLC Xpress Pharmacy has partnered with Good Neighbor Pharmacy and Diabetes Shoppe to provide the diabetic community with information, products, and quality care to help support and manage their diabetes. Our goal is to follow the principal of the National Institute for Pharmacist Care Outcomes (NIPCO) in providing "Comprehensive care that focuses on disease prevention and wellness, including monitoring, evaluating, counseling, intervening, and directing medication and non-medicated therapies to enhance patient care and provide positive outcomes". Our mission is to educate our staff on diabetes care to establish an interpersonal relationship with other health care providers to from a network of diabetes care and resources. There is no "I" in team. Therefore, here at TLC Xpress, we believe that treatment does not only involve "our" team, but the rest of the healthcare providers in the community.

TLC Xpress Pharmacy is committed to presenting a highly trained staff that will be able to offer basic tools to aid patients manage their diabetes. We dispense medications and offer information, products, educational materials, websites, and many more useful tools. We carry all types of diabetic supplies such as glucose meters, test strips, lancets, glucose tablets, and diabetic shoes. TLC Xpress also offers private consultation and classes on diabetes management. We are capable of assisting patients in downloading daily glucose meter readings in a format that patients can provide to their doctors. Please ask our staff for more information.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is one of the most prevalent and unmanaged disease states in America. The trend in diabetes and obesity has also risen significantly over the past decade. Hence, untreated and unmanaged, patients plagued by this silent killer sometimes go years without even knowing that they have the disease. Others, who are informed about their diabetes, but due to the lack of knowledge, go on years without proper treatment and glucose control. According to recent statistics, the United States spend billions of dollars each year on the treatment and care of diabetes not just on disease state management but disease state mis-management.

What is Diabetes? Diabetes is a chronic condition characterized by hyperglycemia due to abnormalities in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and protein followed by microvascular, macrovascular, and neuropathic complications. There are three types of diabetes classified as Type I (insulin dependent), Type II (non-insulin dependent), and gestational (during pregnancy). Diabetes not treated properly could lead to many complications such as cardiovascular disease, nerve damage, kidney failure, vision impairment, and many other complications that will affect patient’s daily activities.