Nutrition Services at Harbor Health
What you eat can make a big difference to your health!
Healthy eating helps children grow and adults live longer. Following a healthy diet can help lower the risk for heart disease and certain cancers. It can also help people with chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure manage these conditions and prevent complications.
Many people do not have a healthy diet. A dietitian can help!
A dietitian is a specialist in using food and nutrition to promote health and manage diseases. They can help you understand what to eat in order to lead a healthy lifestyle or achieve a specific health-related goal.
Nutrition Services at Harbor Health
Rebekka Bean is a Registered Dietitian (RD) and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) at Harbor Health. She offers one-on-one counseling to help patients bring healthy nutrition into their lives.
During these sessions, Rebekka will work with each patient to:
- Review current nutritional status
- Set achievable goals
- Create personalized plans to improve overall health
Each session is tailored to the patient based on the patient’s lifestyle, cultural background, and specific nutritional needs.
Talk with your provider about meeting with Rebekka if you have concerns about:
- Weight management
- Heart health
- Diabetes
- Digestive diseases and food allergies
- Kidney disease
- Pregnancy/preconception nutrition
- General healthy eating and lifestyle habits
Meet Rebekkah Bean, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES
Rebekka Bean has 4 years of experience as a Registered Dietitian. She earned her certification as a Diabetes Care and Education Specialist in 2022.
Before joining Harbor, she worked as an RD and CDCES at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. She also worked at Tufts Medical Center and Tuft’s Children’s Hospital. Her areas of nutrition and lifestyle-related counseling include:
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
- Pre-diabetes
- Gestational diabetes
- Hypertension
- High cholesterol
- Kidney disease
- Gastrointestinal diseases and food allergies/intolerances
- Obesity and weight management
- Unintended weight gain or weight loss
Rebekka has had the privilege of working with individuals from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, enabling her to develop and tailor education, counseling and materials to meet the needs of each patient in their preferred languages.
Appointments and Referrals
If you receive medical care at a Harbor Health community health center, you can meet with the Rebekka with a referral from your provider.
Video and in-person appointments are available. All in-person appointments take place at Daniel Driscoll – Neponset Health Center.
Nothing should stand in the way of your health!
Harbor Health accepts all insurances including MassHealth, Health Safety Net, and most private insurance plans. You can also find help applying for insurance and a sliding fee scale at our community health centers. Most health insurances cover all or a portion if nutrition services.
Please ask your provider if you need assistance with nutrition services!
Food Resources
If you need help getting food, we can also connect you with food access resources at the health center including: