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AADE Diabetes Education Accreditation Program

By becoming an accrediting body for diabetes education, AADE is striving to provide caregivers such as physician offices, clinics, pharmacies and community centers with a way to ensure that they are offering their patients comprehensive, effective diabetes self-management education and to achieve recognition for their efforts. To begin your journey in becoming a DEAP accredited program, please review the National Standards, Essential Elements and Interpretive Guidance.

National Standards, Essential Elements and Interpretive Guidance

AADE's Diabetes Education Accreditation Program is based on the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education. View the standards and learn how they relate to AADE's accreditation program.

Applying for accreditation

AADE offers a streamlined quality accreditation process that increases the feasibility of expanding diabetes education services into diverse community settings. Accreditation instructions and the initial application can be found in the section. Samples of accreditation documents are available in this section for your reference. Click "Applying for accreditation" to begin.

Pricing

Pricing for AADE Accreditation and Reaccreditation.

Accredited programs

AADE began accrediting diabetes education programs in the fall of 2008. View a list of all current AADE-accredited programs.

Change of Status Form

Changes to your program need to be reported to AADE within 30 days. Download the Change of Status Form.

Annual Status Report

On an annual basis, your program will need submit an Annual Status Report. Review the report and instructions.

Reaccreditation

AADE accredited programs need to submit reports annually and apply for reaccredition every three years. Review our tools for maintaining your status and forms for reaccreditation.

Additional Resources 

The AADE Diabetes Education Accreditation Program's policies and procedures provide specific information that help to clarify aspects of the various requirements and processes relating to such issues as site visits, reaccreditation, appeals and complaints.

*Please direct all questions regarding Reimbursement to the 'Ask the Reimbursement Expert' located in the AADE Member Center. The DEAP staff will no longer be able to answer reimbursement questions.

FAQs- Diabetes Education Accreditation Program (DEAP)  

Becoming a Volunteer Auditor

Interested in becoming a volunteer accreditation auditor? Click here to download the position description.

Comments or questions

Questions? Email us at DEAP@aadenet.org or call 800.338.3633

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