Outpatient Nutrition Services
Part of Tri-Valley
Leaders in Nutrition Care
Nutrition is an important part of life, treatment, recovery, and prevention. Food is one of the few things you can be in control of during your treatment. Offering customized nutrition plans, our registered dietitians work with you to make healthier choices so you can feel your best. We help children and adults prevent illness, manage chronic disease, and maintain a healthy weight.
What We Offer You for Outpatient Nutrition Services
- Specialized expertise in creating customized nutrition plans based on your health, body type, dietary needs, age, body mass index (BMI), lifestyle, and goals.
- Advanced treatment options and strategies to manage diabetes, obesity, cancer, GI issues, high cholesterol, nutritional deficiencies, and heart disease.
- Team-based approach to managing chronic conditions, including close collaboration with specialists from diabetes care, cancer care, and weight loss.
- Comprehensive support services to help you and your family focus on health and healing.
- Ease of access, to care, with realistic meal plans, attainable goals, tips for healthy eating, and nutrition apps to help you stay on track.
Our registered dietitians have the expertise to help prevent disease, manage chronic conditions, and guide you in nutritional care. We work with you every step of the way, offering customized plans that fit your lifestyle.
As leaders in nutritional services, we stay on top of the latest dietary guidelines and research-backed strategies. We offer medical nutrition therapy for people with diabetes, cancer, GI issues, obesity-related conditions, and heart disease.
Our team provides a holistic approach to weight loss to help people with obesity maintain a healthy weight or reach their weight loss goals.
Conditions we treat include:
Our registered dietitians offer nutrition plans and counseling to help you reach your goals and make healthier choices for life.
- Overweight and obesity
- Diabetes
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Chronic kidney disease
- Hyperlipidemia
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
- Crohn’s disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Celiac disease
- Gastroparesis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Bowel obstruction
- Short bowel syndrome
- Esophagitis
- Dysphagia
- Failure to thrive
- Nutrition support (enteral and parenteral nutrition)
Chronic Diseases
Gastrointestinal (GI) Conditions
Nutritional deficiencies and allergies
- Cancer: Disease that causes cells to divide and grow out of control
- Diabetes: Disorder that causes high blood sugar (glucose)
- Heart disease: Conditions, including congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease, that affect the way the heart works
- High blood pressure: Condition that causes blood to pump through blood vessels too forcefully, leading to heart attack, stroke, and other conditions
- Lipid disorders: High cholesterol and other conditions that result from high levels of fat (lipids) in the blood
- Liver and kidney disease: Damage to the liver or kidneys that can result from diabetes, diet, infection, and high blood pressure
- Obesity and overweight: Conditions in which body weight is above normal for height
- Pancreatitis: Inflammation of the pancreas that causes abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): Severe form of acid reflux, when stomach acid flows backward into the esophagus
- Celiac disease: Inherited condition that causes the immune system to attack the small intestine when it digests gluten (a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Disorders such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis that cause inflammation of the intestines
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): GI disorder that causes gas, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation
- Food allergies and intolerances
- Nutritional issues relating to pregnancy
- Cancer: Disease that causes cells to divide and grow out of control
- Diabetes: Disorder that causes high blood sugar (glucose)
- Heart disease: Conditions, including congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease, that affect the way the heart works
- High blood pressure: Condition that causes blood to pump through blood vessels too forcefully, leading to heart attack, stroke, and other conditions
- Lipid disorders: High cholesterol and other conditions that result from high levels of fat (lipids) in the blood
- Liver and kidney disease: Damage to the liver or kidneys that can result from diabetes, diet, infection, and high blood pressure
- Obesity and overweight: Conditions in which body weight is above normal for height
- Pancreatitis: Inflammation of the pancreas that causes abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting
close Chronic Diseases
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): Severe form of acid reflux, when stomach acid flows backward into the esophagus
- Celiac disease: Inherited condition that causes the immune system to attack the small intestine when it digests gluten (a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Disorders such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis that cause inflammation of the intestines
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): GI disorder that causes gas, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation
close Gastrointestinal (GI) Conditions
- Food allergies and intolerances
- Nutritional issues relating to pregnancy
close Nutritional deficiencies and allergies
Diet and nutrition affect every aspect of our well-being. To help you feel better overall, we use the latest research, dietary guidelines, and proven strategies to create nutrition plans that work for you. We have experience managing and helping prevent disease, creating successful weight loss programs and working with people of all ages to improve health.
Nutrition Services
We provide you with tailored wellness plans backed by the latest research. Our compassionate team of registered dietitians offers services in the hospital and at our office in Pleasanton. Whether you want to gain more control over a chronic condition, lose weight, or adopt a healthier lifestyle, we’re here to help.
Outpatient Nutrition Therapy and Education
Our registered dietitians provide one-on-one assessments and medical nutrition therapy in our Pleasanton office. We’re passionate about giving you the resources you need to reach your health goals. We offer:
- Customized evaluations and nutrition plans tailored to your specific health concerns, age, lifestyle, medical history, and objectives
- Education and awareness about nutritional guidelines, vitamins, supplements, and eating plans such as the paleo, ketogenic (keto), and Mediterranean diets
- Extensive expertise with wellness plans to address a range of conditions and diseases, including diabetes, weight management, eating disorders, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer
- Individualized advice and information to help you make healthy choices, change behaviors, and avoid unhealthy habits
- Seminars and nutrition classes on a wide range of topics to educate our community and promote overall well-being
- Tailored meal plans for athletes, pregnant women, people who are vegetarian or vegan, and people with food allergies, intolerances, and preferences
Inpatient Clinical Nutrition Care
Good nutrition plays a critical role in treatment and recovery. As vital members of your care team, our dietitians provide tailored care and support while you’re in the hospital. We offer:
- Comprehensive inpatient assessments to ensure that your meals meet your specific nutrition needs
- Customized meals designed to enhance your well-being during your hospital stay
- Information about dietary and lifestyle changes that can help speed recovery, manage a chronic condition, and prevent future hospitalizations
- Realistic nutrition plans to help you transition home, fill nutritional gaps, and make healthy choices after you’re discharged
Diabetes
Through close collaboration with Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley diabetes experts, our registered dietitians help children and adults with all types of diabetes.
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Weight Loss
Our registered dietitians work with a multispecialty team at the Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley Weight Loss Center to help you lose weight and keep it off. We improve your health with:
- All-inclusive wellness strategies featuring customized meal plans and tips to help you achieve and maintain your ideal weight
- Assessments that take into account your health, age, body type, body mass index (BMI), stress level, medical history, and goals
- Close collaboration with bariatric surgeons, sleep specialists, psychologists, and other specialists to provide you with holistic care based on your needs
- Coaching and education before and after weight loss surgery to help you plan meals, choose healthy foods, and make adjustments as your needs change
- Guidance throughout our nonsurgical medical weight loss program, including dietary assessments, meal plans, behavior modification tips, and information about dietary concerns
- Weight loss classes, seminars, and support groups to encourage and inspire you on your journey
Your Nutrition Services Care Team
To deliver comprehensive, seamless care, our registered dietitians collaborate with sleep specialists, cancer care experts, endocrinologists, diabetes education care team, weight loss surgeons, gastroenterologists, and other key specialists involved with your care. We combine our vast knowledge of diet and nutrition to offer successful medical nutrition therapy, counseling, and weight management services. We guide you through the process to help you reach your goals.
Your Doctors
Primary Care Doctors
Your primary care doctor is your main point of contact. Our specialists at work closely with them to provide ongoing follow-up. If you need additional support, your provider will refer you to our self-care program.
View All Primary Care DoctorsEndocrinologists
Endocrinologists specialize in diagnosing and treating conditions, including diabetes, that relate to the hormones and glands. These doctors work closely with your care team to evaluate every aspect of your care to help you achieve the best results possible.
View All EndocrinologistsPsychologists
Through group classes and individual sessions, psychologists help you prepare for the lifestyle and behavioral changes needed. These doctors work with you and help you learn to manage emotional eating, compulsive eating behaviors, and stress.
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Extended Care Team
Registered Dietitians
Registered dietitians (RDs) are specially trained to evaluate your unique nutritional needs based on several factors, including your health, age, and lifestyle. RDs develop customized nutrition plans and have experience helping you prevent and manage chronic disease, maintain a healthy weight, and choose healthy food.
Nursing and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)
Our team of APPs includes nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and clinical nurse specialists with extensive experience treating people with a wide range of pain conditions.
Support Services
We help with the details so you can focus on your health and wellness. We offer a range of patient services and helpful information to coordinate the various aspects of your care:
We help with the details so you can focus on your health and wellness. We offer a range of patient services and helpful information to coordinate the various aspects of your care:
We’re passionate about giving you the knowledge and tools you need to feel better and make healthier choices. Our registered dietitians offer inpatient care and convenient outpatient services in our Pleasanton office.
Convenient care where you live and work
- Insurance and billing: Many insurance companies cover medical nutrition therapy with a physician's referral. Please check with your plan to confirm coverage. Find out more about patient financial services at Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley.
- Coordinated care: As part of our integrated nutrition services program, we collaborate with experts in other departments to offer you seamless, customized care.
- MyHealth: Our MyHealth system allows you to access your records and test results through a secure, online portal and device app. You can also communicate with your doctors.
- Send referrals online
- Place radiology orders
- View referral status
- Access medical records