In keeping with the Digestive Health Center of Excellence's ongoing commitment to providing comprehensive care, we offer GI Medical Nutrition services. Dietitians work together with physicians to develop nutrition therapy plans and provide nutrition counseling and education for patients with digestive disorders. The team specializes in the development and delivery of individualized nutrition therapy in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Nutrition Support Team Medicine
"Our strengths are our interdisciplinary approach, our continuity of care from the inpatient setting to the outpatient setting, and our commitment to helping our patients reach their individual goals."
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Laura Knotts, RD
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Outpatient Nutrition Clinic
In our outpatient Nutrition Clinic, dietitians work with physicians to provide nutrition therapy and education for patients with conditions including the following:
| Celiac disease | Ostomy & hydration management |
| Enteral tube feeding management | Pancreatic insufficiency |
| Evaluation for nutrition support | Pancreatitis with PEG-J or weight loss |
| Failure to thrive | Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) management |
| Gastrectomies | Radiation enteritis |
| Gastroparesis | Short bowel syndrome |
| Malabsorptive Disorders | |
| Malnutrition from any cause |
Inpatient Services
A physician plus nutrition support specialists provide recommendations for enteral tube feedings and parenteral nutrition for patients with malnutrition, malabsorption, metabolic disorders and critical illness. Patients are evaluated for the source of their malnutrition and assessed for specific nutrient deficiencies. The multidisciplinary team also provides state-of-the-art care to all enteral access for difficult-to-nourish patients who previously required parenteral nutrition.
Continuum Home Nutrition Team
Continuum Home Health Company, part of the UVA Health System, offers a nutrition team consisting of a gastroenterologist, pharmacist, registered dietitian and registered nurses to monitor and assist patients who are on home tube feedings or home parenteral nutrition. The Continuum nutrition team provides products and supplies that are directly related to the patient's nutrition care. Nutrition regimens are adjusted on a regular basis depending on the patient's clinical condition. The home nutrition team can also assist the referring physician by ordering and monitoring necessary laboratory values and adjusting the parenteral and enteral tube feedings as necessary from home. The registered dietitian also assists with the patient's transition to a normal diet when appropriate. More information here.