Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Awarded Grant from March of Dimes

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has been awarded a grant by the March of Dimes California Chapter that will help pregnant women with diabetes get control over their blood sugar levels.

Uncontrolled blood sugar can cause birth defects, high birth weight, and other complications.

“We will use the March of Dimes grant as seed money to meet our objective of providing mothers with uncontrolled diabetes with continuous glucose monitors,” said Laura Smith, clinical supervisor of the hospital’s Sweet Success program for diabetic pregnant women. “The information from the continuous glucose monitors will allow us to identify patterns of glucose levels above or below the desired range and facilitate therapy adjustment, as well as better educate patients on how to control their diabetes. We are grateful to those volunteers who support the March of Dimes by participation in events like March for Babies and who donate in other ways.  That participation and those donations make this grant possible.”

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center is the third largest birthing hospital in California, with more than 6,8000 live births every year. The Sweet Success Program is the largest program for diabetic pregnant women in the region, and the only one in the area with a maternal-fetal specialist/perinatologist and social worker. 

For more information, contact Laura Smith at either 909-865-9754 or laura.smith@pvhmc.org.