Senior Education Ministries, Inc. in partnership with the Champaign Community has scheduled: Dine with a Doc ® -Champaign on the 1st Wednesday of every month from 11:00a-1:00p at Carle at the fields (Lower level rooms A,B and C) 3310 Fields South Drive, Champaign, IL. 61822. THERE IS ONLY ONE ENTRANCE FOR VISITORS AND THERE IS A SIGN FOR VISITOR PARKING!
Dine with a Doc® is a FREE program that welcomes the local senior public to getting to hear an educational topic while enjoying a complimentary lunch. No need to bring any money! Just bring a questioning mind, an appetite and perhaps a friend.
This program is a community effort of a doctor, a lunch sponsor, area businesses, a local church in the community and the senior citizens coming together for the good of all to serve our seniors.
Each doctor has graciously donated this time in effort to listen, hear, and answer your medical questions while sharing a meal with you. Various community businesses also participate by donating door prizes or providing complimentary lunch for you to enjoy and learn about ways they may help you as well.
The Dine with a Doc® program was designed to allow the seniors to get out of their homes, fellowship with their peers, extend their available financial resources, promote enhanced living, and educate them (from a preventative standpoint) with the goal of improving their quality of life and providing them with the resources and information to make an informed choice about their healthcare.
This Month We Welcome: Dr. Sathya Subbiah MD
SBL Family Medical Center at 217 234-7000.
200 Richmond Ave East in Mattoon.
Endocrinologist Sathya Subbiah has come to know her patients more like good friends and extended family members.
“I like to understand them as a person. I like to know their family background, where they work, and what they like to do. Long-time patients will bring in photos of their kids or new grandkids to show me. This brings us closer to each other and makes tackling health problems much easier,” Dr. Subbiah said.
Endocrinologist Sathya Subbiah, MD, is now seeing patients at the Family Medical Center in Mattoon. Endocrinology involves the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. Common medical problems that endocrinologists treat include diabetes, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, parathyroid, adrenal, and pituitary disorders. Dr. Subbiah prefers to get to know as much about patients as possible to allow her to make treatment plans that work best.
Dr. Subbiah grew up in south India and moved to the United States after she met her husband, who is a cardiologist in Champaign. Having parents that worked in the medical field influenced her decision to pursue medicine. Her mother was a professor in anatomy and completed research in pituitary gland. Her father was a surgeon who performed reconstructive surgeries for patients with leprosy and other diseases.
“My father was also an Indian army captain, where he met a lot of tribal people who had never seen a doctor before. Those stories were very inspiring and led me to medicine,” Dr. Subbiah said.
In 1990, Dr. Subbiah attended medical school at Madurai Medical College in India. After graduation, she completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She then worked at the Carle Clinic in internal medicine before taking a two-year endocrinology fellowship at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Upon completion of the fellowship, Dr. Subbiah worked as an endocrinologist at Christie Clinic for 15 years.
The biggest health issue in endocrinology today is type 1 and type 2 diabetes. “Health physicals usually include testing for diabetes, so it should not be missed,” Dr. Subbiah said. “There is a greater awareness today with diabetes prevention and treatment, which makes me happy.
Management of diabetes is evolving rapidly. We now have continuous glucose monitoring devices, medications especially for type 2 diabetes which promote weight loss and reduce diabetic complications like eye and kidney disease.”
Dr. Subbiah has been familiar with Sarah Bush Lincoln for many years from her practice in Champaign. Many of her patients also received care at Sarah Bush Lincoln. These patients always had wonderful comments about SBL. “When I decided to move, it was a natural decision to come here,” Dr. Subbiah said.
Dr. Subbiah loves to take long walks every day and play tennis with her son and daughter twice a week. She even takes lessons so she can keep up with her children’s skill level.
“Whatever I suggest to patients, I do for myself as well,” Dr. Subbiah said of her active lifestyle.
Come and learn about ways to improve your quality of life. A question/answer period will follow her discussion.
A delicious COMPLIMENTARY meal will be provided courtesy of:
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System located at 1000 Health Center Drive in Mattoon (217) 258-2525) is a 128-bed, not-for-profit; regional hospital centrally located in East Central Illinois' Coles County, and is the recipient of the 2011 Illinois Performance Excellence Gold Award for Achievement of Excellence, the highest performance honors in the state.
Sarah Bush Lincoln is accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare. The Health Center provides a full range of acute care services to residents of Coles County and the surrounding six counties. Home health services extend to the surroundings 19 counties in East Central and Southern Illinois. Active and consulting medical staffs include approximately 145 providers representing 28 specialties.
In Home Medical, located at 300 Coles Centre Parkway in Mattoon is a durable medical equipment company that rents and sells medical equipment to help you maintain your independence in the comfort of your own home.
What sets them apart from other providers is the personal training and education they provide to all of their customers. Their technicians deliver and install the equipment to homes in a 19-county area including: Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Moultrie, Shelby, Bond, Clay, Crawford, Fayette, Lawrence, Jasper, Marion, Montgomery, Piatt, Richland, and Wayne counties. They spend the necessary amount of time teaching patients and their caregivers how to use the new equipment and where to call for assistance should the need arise.
Their staff is highly trained and has more than 50 cumulative years of home medical experience. Each new visit includes:
- Appropriate patient and caregiver education
- Coordination of care with physician and home health agency
- Home safety assessment
- Respiratory assessment by a credentialed respiratory therapist when oxygen equipment is prescribed
The referring physician or hospital can call their office directly and order the necessary equipment. They'll obtain other important information and work in conjunction with discharge planning to make arrangements to deliver and set up the equipment.
Sarah Bush Lincoln is proud to be a 2024 Key Supporter for Senior Education Ministries and the Dine with a Doc® program.
There will be an opening prayer at the beginning of the program. Veterans in attendance will be recognized for their service and dedication to our country followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to start off the program. There will be various Health Care Providers present to share information about their services and provide Door prizes for participants to win.
Reservations for Dine with A Doc® are required and can be made by contacting: CARRIAGE CROSSING @ 217-303-8840 or by calling Senior Education Ministries, Inc. toll free @ 1-877-223-6109. Be sure to leave a message if there is no answer and we will call back and confirm we got your rsvp!
