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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute, New Center To Provide State-of-The-Art Education, Training to Health Professionals

Milpitas, CA (February 29, 2008) – With mounting evidence that many health professionals lack the training and skills to combat the nation’s growing epidemic of diabetes, the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute, LLC today opened its first training center in the U.S. to improve how practitioners deliver diabetes care in local communities.The new facility, based in Silicon Valley, will provide comprehensive training each year for thousands of community-based nurses, physician assistants, diabetes educators and other health professionals using a curriculum developed with national diabetes organizations and academic centers. It addresses an acute shortage of skills training in diabetes management at the community level, which practitioners cite as one of the major obstacles to improving patient outcomes... Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute's Press Release -