Glucose Testing Homestead Community Health Center Miami Florida

Glucose Testing Homestead Community Health Center Miami Florida. A blood glucose test measures the glucose levels in your blood. Glucose is a type of sugar. It is your body’s main source of energy. A hormone called insulin helps move glucose from your bloodstream into your cells. Too much or too little glucose in the blood can be a sign of a serious medical condition. High blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia) may be a sign of diabetes, a disorder that can cause heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and other complications. Low blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia) can also lead to major health problems, including brain damage, if not treated.

Other names: blood sugar, self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), fasting blood sugar (FBS), fasting blood glucose (FBG), glucose challenge test, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).

Homestead Community Health Center in Miami Dade county, Florida provides high quality, comprehensive, primary and preventive medical, and behavioral health care services and education in an environment of caring, respect and dignity. Our goal is to be responsive to the needs of the communities it serves, but with continued emphasis on the under-served and those without access to care, regardless of race, economic status, age, sex, sexual orientation, or disability. Homestead Community Health Center serves patients in the residential and commercial Miami Dade / Homestead area.

Our medical providers are highly trained and board certified from many diverse, cross-cultural backgrounds. The care and service they provide is done so in a respectful and comfortable environment where dignity and understanding allow for the patient/client and provider to share information.

We strive to ensure that our services are accessible to people with disabilities. We’ve invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that our website is made easier to use and more accessible, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.