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Clinical Nutrition

Blythedale Children's Hospital and its Clinical Nutrition Department provides the highest caliber of medical nutrition therapy with a patient-centered focus and quality-of-life approach.

Our dietitians create individualized meal plans for patients with allergies, dietary restrictions and specialized diets, while working alongside the child's speech therapist to ensure the best results.

For the infant population at Blythedale Children's Hospital, the Clinical Nutrition team meticulously creates patient specific formula recipes, ensuring each child receives optimal nutrition for development and growth. 

Patients and caregivers are also continuously educated on nutritional goals in preparation for success after hospital discharge.

Contact Information:

  • Tony Corda, General Manager, Food and Nutrition / Environmental Services
  • tcorda@blythedale.org
  • (914) 592-7555 x 71546

Clinical Nutrition Staff

Tony Corda
General Manager, Food and Nutrition / Environmental Services

Tony joined Blythedale in January of 2015 as the General Manager of Food and Nutrition & Environmental Services. He has more than 25 years’ experience in Pediatric Healthcare Food and Nutrition services. Prior to working at Blythedale Children’s Hospital, Tony was the Director of Food and Nutrition Services at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, as well as the Chef and Manager at Sunshine Children’s Home. Tony and the clinical nutrition team collaborate with the multidisciplinary teams at Blythedale to develop the Hospital's robust enteral feeding formulary, individualized toddler and pediatric patient menus, and supports Blythedale's inpatient and outpatient Intensive Feeding Program.

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Treatments We Support

Specialized Feeding

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Specialized Feeding

Children referred to Blythedale for Therapeutic Feeding have wide-ranging conditions including prematurity, short-gut syndrome, brain injury, oral-motor dysfunction, aversion behaviors, cognitive deficits or post-surgical complications. Services for these children include evaluations for both...

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Neuromuscular Disorders

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Neuromuscular Disorders

The goal of our Neuromuscular Disorders program is to help children maximize their functional abilities through comprehensive medical care and rehabilitation, utilizing state-of-the-art technology, environmental modifications and adaptive equipment. Following an intake evaluation, the child’s...

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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Pulmonary Rehabilitation

The goal of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation program is weaning from technology completely or to the least invasive support to facilitate the family's transition to home. Parents are involved in the care of their child every step of the way, and learn proper use of equipment, care of tracheostomy,...

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Pulmonary Hypertension

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Pulmonary Hypertension

Blythedale’s expertise in caring for the most medically fragile of children is evident in our Pulmonary Hypertension rehabilitation program. Children come to Blythedale directly from the Intensive Care Unit while receiving intravenous, inhaled, subcutaneous or oral medications for pulmonary...

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Post Acute Neonatal Care

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Post Acute Neonatal Care

Whether requiring ongoing medical management and rehabilitation due to extreme prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, congenital cardiac disease, pulmonary hypertension , hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, short gut syndrome, feeding disorders or other complications occurring in the neonatal period...

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Complex Wound and Burn Management

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Complex Wound and Burn Management

The child’s clinical team works collaboratively with parents and other caregivers to identify developmentally appropriate medical and therapeutic goals. This team is also committed to meeting the psychological and social challenges that accompany burn and wound treatment and recovery,...

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Complex Post-Surgical Rehabilitation

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Complex Post-Surgical Rehabilitation

Patients are admitted for acute medical and rehabilitative inpatient care following major trauma (such as head and spinal injuries, extensive soft tissue trauma/burns, vascular injuries, major muscle/ligament injuries, amputations or fractures), extensive scoliosis surgery, selective dorsal...

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Cancer Rehabilitation

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Cancer Rehabilitation

A customized therapeutic regimen enables patients to regain their strength and function while undergoing or recovering from surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. We recognize the vital importance of an ongoing relationship with the child’s referring oncology team, and we participate...

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Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injury

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Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injury

Blythedale Children’s Hospital is a longtime leader in the treatment of children recovering from brain injury including Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), post-infectious diseases such as meningitis or Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (ANMDAR), brain tumors and stroke. The extraordinary...

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Pre/Post Organ & Stem Cell Transplant

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Pre/Post Organ & Stem Cell Transplant

These children require the highest level attention of a multidisciplinary team of pediatricians, pediatric physiatrists, nurses, nutritionists, pharmacists and physical, occupational, speech and feeding therapists familiar with the problems inherent in recovery from and living with a transplant. We...

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Complex Chronic Conditions

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Complex Chronic Conditions

Many children come to Blythedale with multiple, complex chronic conditions that impact their function. These chronic conditions - including cerebral palsy, CHARGE syndrome, congenital and chromosomal abnormalities, severe epilipsy - can complicate recovery after surgeries, acute illnesses or...

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Cardiac Rehabilitation

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Cardiac Rehabilitation

As more infants and children are undergoing complex cardiac surgical procedures to repair congenital conditions such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, tetralogy of fallot, transposition of the great vessels, coarctation of the aorta, or cardiac injury due to myocarditis or traumatic injury,...

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Clinical Nutrition Month at Blythedale

Clinical Nutrition Month takes on special prominence at Blythedale Children’s Hospital, where the medical fragility of each patient necessitates a complex and customized nutrition plan tailored to his or her unique needs.

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