Join us for another exciting Point of Care Coordinators meeting to be held in our state’s capital at the Montgomery Cardiovascular Associates Building on the south campus of Baptist Health on October 19, 2007.

With medicine and healthcare becoming more managed the hospital industry has to balance quality of care, financial reimbursement along with patient length of stay to stay profitable. One benefit to both patients and the hospitals is through the use of tight glycemic controls. Under tight glycemic control patients receive more aggressive care while hospitals benefit from the decreased length of stay of these patients.

Carol Waldrop is a registered nurse and certified diabetes educator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is currently working on her nursing practioners degree in the adult nursing practioners program at UAB. Her knowledge of diabetes draws also from her previous professional experiences as a diabetes educator for the Kirklin Clinic (UAB), an insulin pump consultant for various medical equipment companies and numerous research and community service programs on diabetes in which she has been associated. She is sponsored by Roche Diagnostics.

Denise Zito  is the senior consultant for Medical Automation Services. Her main responsibilities are product management for the RALS-Tight Glycemic Control Module and TIARA-Diabetes Education Tracking Software systems. She has served as Operations Manager for the Clinical Laboratory at the University of Virginia Health Systems in Charlottesville, Virginia. Currently, Denise also serves as a Laboratory Inspector for the College of American Pathologists and continues to be authored in several medical publications.

• Montgomery Cardiovascular
  Associates Building
  2119 East South Blvd.
  Montgomery, Alabama 36116