Keeping Diabetes Management Affordable

At the annual Florida Dietetic Association (FDA) meeting in Boca Raton, FL on July 21, 2008, American Diabetes Wholesale unveiled Destination Diabetes to the dieticians that attended.  The attendees were thrilled to hear about such a great website with all the educational and nutritional information that their patients need.  Many were excited to hear that they could start their own personal blog to share more information with their patients when they are not in a class or appointment.

ADW also raffled off three of Marlene Koch’s 375 Sensational Splenda Recipes cookbooks to those who had dropped their business cards off.  Also, an American Express gift card was raffled off.

ADW looks forward to working closely with the FDA in order to help in the education of their patients and also be the most affordable resource for all of the supplies that they need.

American Diabetes Wholesale will be attending the Florida Dietetic Assocation’s 2008 Exhibition at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, FL.  The event will be held on July 20 and July 21 for exhibiting vendors.  ADW is working hard with not only diabetes educators, but dieticians also.  Many dieticians become CDE’s, but even for the ones that don’t, ADW wants to make sure that their patients have a resource for affordable supplies and all the educational information they will need.

ADW will be proud to introduce or new Destination Diabetes educational website to all the hard working dieticians at the exhibition.  Also, that their patients can still eat healthy at a reasonable price with our discounted prices on products such as, Glucerna, ZonePerfect, and Walden Farms.

Last Friday, American Diabetes Wholesale honored the winner of ADW’s Diabetes Educator of the year 2007 - Barbara Odom. We had a ceremony at our office with a few key speakers and some of Barbara’s family members. This was a great day for ADW as we rewarded Barbara for all her hard work. Barbara Odom is a truly amazing individual who is dedicated to her profession and to her patients. As the winner, she received a free two night stay at the luxurious Boca Resort and Spa.

American Diabetes Wholesale’s Diabetes Educator of the Year contest was created to honor and reward these healthcare professionals who are on the front lines helping in the fight against diabetes. Due to the great success of the first ever Diabetes Educator of the Year contest, our company has decided to make this an annual event. We understand the import role these educators play and we are hoping to have an even bigger event next year!

Congratulations Barbara – ADW is proud and honored to have you named our first ever Diabetes Educator of the Year!

Something exciting is cooking at American Diabetes Wholesale.  You will be able to meet our new diabetes advisor.   There will also be special prizes going to the first 52 chat registrants that day.

 This will all begin at 2:00 p.m. on June 24th, 2008 and the live discussion will end at 3:00 p.m.  With this new website ADW will not just be offering discounted prices on all diabetic supplies, but will also be your one stop place for all the diabetes information you would need.

Please visit us on June 24th to see all the great information available! 

The  Greater Palm Beach County Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) held their annual Appreciation and Awards Ceremony on Tuesday June 17, 2008.  This event took place on a Florida Cruise boat that went along the intracoastal waterway in Delray Beach, FL.  ADW was honored to have received an invite and also receive a certificate from the JDRF.

ADW’s team had donate over $2,000 back in March for the Boca Raton walk.  American Diabetes Wholesale will also be supporting the JDRF and the Boynton Beach Firefighter Benevolent Association’s Charity Golf Tournament on October 18, 2008 at the Cypress Creek Country Club.

Have a wonderful weekend!

ADW has proudly accepted an invitation to attend the JDRF’s awards and appreciation dinner next Tuesday, June 17, 2008.  This is event is held for all of the amazing supporters, sponsors, and walkers who gave up their time and money to the hope for a cure of diabetes.

 American Diabetes Wholesale is proud to work with the JDRF and support them in everything that they do.  The walk was a huge success and I can guarantee that the awards dinner will be the same.

August 6-9, 2008 are approaching fast.  These are the days of the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) annual meeting in Washington D.C.  This conference provides educational and networking opportunities for diabetes educators.  American Diabetes Wholesale is excited to be attending the show again this year.  Last year’s conference in St. Louis was a great success!

With nearly 400 visitors, ADW’s booth was frequented often, especially from the educators who were interested in the patients that ADW’s focus is on, the uninsured, underinsured and anybody paying out of pocket for their supplies.

If you will be attending the meeting, you can look for American Diabetes Wholesale at booth #1940 and get more information on the low cost diabetic supplies that ADW offers.

American Diabetes Wholesale is dedicated to keeping diabetes management affordable!

This past Saturday, March 29, 2008, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation held their annual walk in Boca Raton, FL in Mizner Park. There were approximately 3,000 people who showed up. The amount of awareness and money raised for such a great organization is amazing and exciting. American Diabetes Wholesale is proud to support the JDRF in ways such as this. It is now time for JDRF to start planning and organizing the next walk.

The weather had been forecasted to be rainy and thunderstorms, but it could not have turned out to be any more perfect of a day. The sun was out with a few clouds, and a nice little breeze every now and again. The two mile walk turned out to be successful. Approximately 8-10 ADW team members walked with family and friends.

The performances by local high school cheerleaders, bands, and singers were all outstanding. It created a great environment for a great cause.

Below are a few pictures included from the walk of members of the ADW team.

On March 25, 2008 on American Diabetes Alert day, American Diabetes Wholesale attended the health seminar at the Specialty Care Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  There were about 100 patients who had showed up for a free blood glucose and also blood pressure readings.  There was excellent lectures on diet, excercise, feet, eyes, stress, anything and everything that someone with diabetes would need to know about and how to manage.

It was a great turn out and another reason why ADW is here, and that is to help those without the resources for their everyday supplies.  Majority could not afford anything at all let alone paying the high cost for their supplies.  We have committed ourselves to keeping diabetes management affordable, and will continue to be there for those patients as a resource for them.

 Upcoming event for American Diabetes Wholesale will be this Saturday, March 29, 2008 at Mizner Park in Boca Raton, FL for the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes.

The Healthy Living Expo in The  Villages, Fl was a successful event.  With over 1,000 attendees there was information for them on their diabetes, blood pressure, cholestorel, comfortable shoes, and other health support materials.  American Diabetes Wholesale’s sugar free low-carb candies were a huge success with the residents.  These candies are not just great for people with diabetes, but everybody in general.   They are the D-Lectable candies.

The organizers of this event, Jim and Nancy Smith, are dedicated to their diabetes support group and worked extremely hard to organize and set this whole event up.  All proceeds were donated to the Florida Children’s with Diabetes Camp.

We look forward to returning to the 2009 event.