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Nutrition Services NARH Nutrition Counseling Staff
(413) 664-5267
Outpatient counseling is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends by request.
Our Nutrition Services Staff
Kristin Irace, RD, LDN: Kristin plans and directs  the nutritional care of patients at NARH as the Clinical Nutrition Manager. This includes assessments of nutritional status and educational needs, development and implementation of the nutrition therapy plan, reassessment of patients, and monitoring and evaluation of the nutrition care plan. She also provides nutrition education via individualized diet counseling, classes, and lectures to hospital patients, health professionals, and community members. Kristin coordinates the Young at Heart Program in the North Adams School system and is actively involved in many REACH programs.
Kristin’s professional interests include childhood obesity, general nutrition and wellness, and weight control.
Rita Longworth, RD: Rita works primarily  in the outpatient setting. She provides individual nutrition counseling on a variety of topics for people of all ages. She counsels individuals on topics such as diabetes and high cholesterol, weight loss or gain, and healthy eating for the entire family, just to name a few. Rita, a native of Northfield, Vermont, holds a bachelor’s degree in Dietetics from the University of Vermont. She completed her dietetic internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, graduating from that program in August 2009. She most recently worked for Sodexo at the University of Vermont.
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