Expert nutrition care, close to home
MaineHealth Medical Nutrition Brunswick provides high-quality clinical nutrition services in Brunswick, Maine.
Clinical nutrition services during your hospital stay
A balanced diet is essential to good health, especially when you are recovering from surgery or managing a condition such as cancer or diabetes. During your inpatient stay at Mid Coast Hospital, our clinical nutrition team will work with you to make sure you are taking in the right balance of nutrients to support your medical condition. Services include:
- Nutrition exams and consultations
- Customized nutrition interventions
- Nutrition support
- Nutrition diagnostics and education
These important services can help decrease: your recovery time, the length of your hospital stay, your risk of complications, and your chance of returning to the hospital.
Clinical nutrition counseling outside the hospital
Our registered and licensed dietitians are also available to provide reliable nutrition information, tools and support to help you achieve and maintain your health goals in your daily life. We provide objective nutrition information through personal, one-on-one counseling sessions to help patients separate facts from fads. Our outpatient nutrition counseling services are available in person or via telehealth. We accept all major insurances.
More about our services
- Weight Management
- Unintentional weight loss
- Unintentional weight gain
- Weight fluctuations
- Disease Management
- Diabetes and prediabetes
- Cardiovascular
- Pulmonary
- Renal
- Oncology
- Pancreatitis
- Cirrhosis
- Gastrointestinal Concerns
- Celiac disease
- IBS/IBD
- Lactose intolerance
- Gastroparesis
- GERD
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Nausea/vomiting
- Gastric surgery
- Short bowel syndrome
- Pediatric Nutrition
- Failure to thrive
- Picky eating
- Disordered Eating
- Anorexia nervosa
- Binge eating disorder
- ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)
- Bulimia
- Orthorexia nervosa
- Purging disorder
- Night eating syndrome
- Other unspecified disorders
- Other
- Anemia
- Difficulty chewing/swallowing
- Food allergies
- Food safety
- Wound healing
- Nutrition support
- Older adult nutrition
Education may also be part of your nutrition plan. For example, people with diabetes need to know how to count carbohydrates and people with cardiac disease need to know how to follow a heart healthy diet. If nutrition education is recommended, a registered dietitian or dietetic technician will meet with you to:
- Talk about your diet
- Assess your understanding of the nutrients you need to stay healthy
- Provide a written plan for you to follow
For more information, please talk to your doctor or visit the following resources:
Registered dietitians (RD) have completed extensive training including:
- A minimum of a bachelor's degree
- Required supervised practice/experience
- Passed a national examination
Many people claim to be "nutritionists" but do not carry the same level of training so it is important to check for credentials. All MaineHealth Maine Medical Center dietitians are registered with the Commission on Dietetic Registration, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and are licensed dietitians in the State of Maine. Several dietitians also have advanced degrees and/or specialty certifications.
For more information visit www.cdrnet.org.
Dietetic technicians (DTRs) are an integral part of the clinical nutrition team. Dietetic technicians have:
- Completed a dietetic technician program with supervised practice
- Passed a national examination
They work closely with registered dietitians to:
- Implement nutrition care plans
- Provide specialized nutrition education
- Monitor patients’ nutritional status
For more information visit www.cdrnet.org.
