Dietitian Services
Our Dietitian Services team helps you make healthy food choices, manage health conditions, and reach your health goals. We provide support and education to help you feel your best.
What Is a Registered Dietitian? A Registered Dietitian (RD or RDN) is a food and nutrition expert with special training in health and nutrition. Dietitians help people learn how food affects their health and how to make food choices that fit their needs, budget, and lifestyle.
Services we provide:
- Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)- Get personal nutrition care to help manage health conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and kidney disease.
- Diabetes Education- Learn how food, activity, blood sugar, and medicine work together. We help you build skills to manage diabetes and improve your health.
- Group Classes- Join others to learn healthy habits and share support. Our classes include:
- Weight Loss: Learn about healthy eating, portion sizes, meal planning, and ways to reach a healthy weight.
- Diabetes Education: Learn how to check your blood sugar, plan meals, and manage diabetes in daily life.
Food and Nutrition Support
Getting enough healthy food can be hard. We can help connect you with food resources and programs in your community. These may include Medically Tailored Meals, which are meals made to meet the nutrition needs of people with certain health conditions. These meals can help support your health when cooking or getting food is difficult.
Your care team
Karissa Lucio, RD, LD, CDCES
Aubrey Salvador, RD, LD
Leticia Wallace, RD, LD
Take control of your health
Talk to your care team if you want to learn more or get a referral to our dietitian service.
Central Health, the Travis County Hospital District, provides these specialty care services to members of the Medical Access Program (MAP) and MAP Basic after referral from a primary care provider.
If you are not a MAP member and want to apply, or just to learn more about the program, click here or call 512.978.8130.