Our Story
Dietary Difference offers nutrition care management services in healthcare facilities in southern and central Ohio. We provide full-spectrum dietary consulting services including:
- Placement of registered dietitians, dietetic technicians and dietary managers
- Clinical nutrition and FNS department oversight
- Staff development
Lynn Dowd founded the company in 1988. While working as a food service director, Lynn utilized consulting dietitians in her facilities. Over and over, the contractors exhibited what Lynn came to call the “Consultant Mentality." A “good enough is good enough" mindset: I’m doing all that can be done in the time they give me…
- Disconnection from the needs and goals of the facility..
- Newly licensed dietitians with no experience, or seasoned dietitians set in their ways and unwilling to learn...
- Limited ongoing dietitian training, no clinical oversight...
- No dietitian focus on cost reduction...
- Poor customer service from the consulting company…
Concerned and frustrated with the low level of expertise, lack of consistency and poor corporate oversight she experienced with consulting dietitians, she decided to start her own consulting firm and Dietary Difference® was born.