Anna de Jesus is the President and Owner of Food and Nutritional Solutions, LLC providing consultant services to business and industry and public speaking engagements to health care clients. She is also the Founder of Nutrition Alliance, LLC, the largest provider of dietitian services for skilled nursing and behavioral hospitals in AZ. Prior to these, Anna was Regional Dietitian for Sunbridge healthcare where she directed the clinical nutrition and food service operations of skilled nursing & assisted living communities in AZ and California. Prior jobs included Director of Food and Nutrition Service for behavioral health hospitals and school food service. Anna received her Master’s degree in Business Administration at Keller Graduate School of Management where she graduated with distinction and her BS in Community Nutrition from the University of the Philippines.  

Anna has published several operational and training manuals on clinical nutrition services and food service operations. She co-authored and reviewed various publications and most recently the wound chapter for ASPEN. She developed the Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) nutrition specific process to maximize reimbursement for nutrition related triggers for long-term care communities. She is one of the authors of the newly published, SPIPP 2.0 by the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel.

Anna is a sought-after speaker and has presented at various state and national conferences, both onsite and virtually. Topics ranged from nutrition and pressure injury, SNF CMS survey trends and management, food safety, malnutrition, cultural diversity, food cost control and COVID related topics. Her virtual presentation has garnered more than 2000 registrants.   She has served in various committees for the Dietitians in Health Care Communities, Arizona State University’s Internship, Maricopa County Internship, Arizona Health Care Association AZ Chapter’s Quality Committee and is currently the Treasurer for the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP).