Meal Services

Dietitians
Registered dietitians perform nutritional assessments on all patients considered to be potentially at nutritional risk. They develop nutritional care plans with the patient and/or family to improve the nutritional status of the patient to aid in healing and recovery. Dietitians routinely monitor the patients’ tolerance to meals, tube feedings and IV nutrition. They provide nutrition counseling and education to both inpatients and outpatients by physician referral or patient request.

Patient Meals
You will receive a selection menu every day on your breakfast tray. Please be sure to complete all three meal selections as soon as possible. Remember to include your name and room number on the bottom. You may give your menu selections to the nurse for pickup or a nutrition services assistant will stop by to assist you with your menu, if necessary.

Diagnostic procedures such as X-rays and laboratory tests may require that your meal be missed or delayed. They will be restarted as soon as the Nutrition Services Department is notified that you may resume eating.

Visitor Meal Trays
The presence of loved ones and visitors can be essential medicine for a patient’s recovery, both physically and psychologically. Visitors are encouraged to use the Cafeteria in our hospital’s lower level. However, guest trays are available for visitors who wish to remain with the patient.

If a guest tray is desired, please ask your nurse. Choices may be made from the general menu of the day. The price of the tray will be applied to the patient’s bill. Guest trays may be obtained from 7:15 to 8 a.m. for breakfast, 11:15 a.m. to Noon for lunch, and 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. for dinner.

Cafeteria
Your family and friends are invited to use our hospital's Cafeteria, open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Hot meals are served from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. A vending area is also open 24 hours a day, and is located next to the Cafeteria.