Advocate Health Diabetes & Endocrinology

We Support the Whole Patient

Our whole-patient approach to treating diabetes helps you improve your quality of life and avoid complications. At Advocate Health Care, you’ll receive a personalized care plan that combines easy-to-follow guidance about nutrition and blood sugar control with the right level of exercise for your specific needs and lifestyle.

We have been certified by the American Diabetes Association for meeting and maintaining high national standards for quality of care and diabetes education.

Our experts give you the comprehensive care you deserve by collaborating across disciplines, including endocrinology, primary care, diabetics and nutrition, fitness and weight loss, heart and vascular care, ophthalmology, podiatry, wound care and support services.

We simplify diabetes care by giving you access to personalized nutrition and exercise coaching and by helping you learn essential skills to manage your condition, including:

About Park Ridge, IL

Park Ridge is a picturesque suburb located 14 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, convenient to O'Hare Airport, major expressways, CTA and Metra trains allowing for an easy commute into the city while enjoying peaceful suburban living.  

Park Ridge is a prime residential community that retains its distinctive, small-town charm where “community” is a big part of this suburban town. The city’s vibrant Uptown shopping area includes the Metra station, Public Library and several parks featuring live musical concerts and special events are held in the summer. Throughout the city, quiet tree-lined streets, pleasing architecture, excellent schools, centrally located library and ample parks help make Park Ridge one of the most desirable family communities in the Chicago area.

Unique shops and a great selection of restaurants fill the Uptown area, where new buildings blend serenely with historic ones. The Uptown Park Ridge skyline is graced with cupolas, church spires and the 100-foot tower of the Art Deco Pickwick Theatre, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

In addition to the Uptown shopping area, Park Ridge offers other shopping and dining convenient to every neighborhood, including South Park, Village Green, the Dee Park area bordering Oakton Ave. and the Higgins Corridor bordering Chicago.

Park Ridge hosts a variety of businesses from privately owned to major corporations and is home to Lutheran General Hospital, a Level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and part of Advocate Aurora Health.