Food & Nutrition Services at Rush are provided by a team of registered dietitians with training and experience to care for patients and the community at large. Our staff includes specialists in food and nutrition as it relates to general health, specific diseases and food production/services. They provide general nutrition advice to help prevent disease and optimize health, as well as medical nutrition advice to manage disease and improve quality of life.

Eating well is key to staying well, so Rush offers many nutrition-related services. These include:

Nutrition and Wellness Center
Our team of nutrition experts can help you achieve your goals, including losing weight, increasing energy, lowering blood cholesterol and living a healthier life.

Nutrition Clinic
Registered dietitians use state-of-the-art methods to analyze nutrient content of food intake, assess baseline caloric needs, measure body fat percentage and help patients comply with diets.

Nutrition Consultation Service
Services include nutritional assessment, enteral and parenteral nutrition therapy and indirect calorimetry. Clinical staff members are experienced in nutritional management of bone marrow transplant, surgical, gastroenterological and critically ill patients of all ages. This service is staffed by a multidisciplinary nutrition support team consisting of registered dietitians and pharmacists. The team is co-directed by a registered dietitian and a physician.

Mary Gregoire, PhD, RD, is director of Food and Nutrition Services at Rush.