Hospital breakfasts

RE: Hospital breakfasts (ann peeples)

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:01:59 GMT

I spent 5 days in our local community hospital this past November, and the food was excellent.The breakfasts, especially.Eggs were fresh, bagels pretty good, fresh fruit, etc.Their version of an egg mcmuffin was awesome....

RE: Hospital breakfasts (tiki)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:44:22 GMT

year and half ago i surviverd a an abdominal aortic anuerism---8 % survival rate--needless to say --i spent a long time in Tulsa's St Francis hospital---after what seemed like 2 weeks on an IV i got to eat something--i can honestly say that the orange jello they brought me was the best tasting thing i ever put in my mouth!!! and the food there was better TASTING then i expected but i was amazed at how UNHEALTHY the diet they put me on was!! Fried foods--boiled to death vegies---but a great burger! then i was recently in Muskogee Regional Medical Center for a week--some of the worst breakfasts i ever had---dry plain "Almost" bagels are NOT the most appetizing thing to start the day with!!!

Re:Hospital breakfasts (hatteras04)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:05:38 GMT

BillyB

Hospital Food has come a long way. You can now order almost anything you want, anytime you want it. The Hospital knows they need to do whatever it has to, in order for you to pick them again. Its like anyother business, if you falter, someone else will be at the top of their game, and take your business away........Bill

That's partly it. There is also now an initiaive that hospital patient satisfaction scores are reported publicy by the government. You have to report them to get the full payment allowed by Medicare. In the future they will actually use those scores plus other clincial ones to rank hospitals and pay more to the best ones. So anything that can be done to push patients into ranking the hospital higher is being done. And beleive it or not, food is always a big driver of satisfaction.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Jennie)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:40:01 GMT

Yes, it was a voluntary amputation, too, which makes it even stranger.

Basically, when he was 6 he got a cancerous growth behind his kneecap. They stopped it with radiation (which caused the growth plate in that leg to stop growing, so that leg was always much shorter than the other hand he had a special shoe with a 4" sole). However, 10 years later he got a radiation induced cancer on the kneecap itself, and had to have the kneecap removed. A year later, he was in agony and went back for more surgery, and they discovered that his kneecap was attempting to spontaneously regenerate. Apparently this is more common in children than adults, but then his growth plate was frozen at childhood . . . who knows? Anyway, he elected not to have to go in for surgery every Christmas season for the rest of his life and have his kneecap removed again. So he had them amputate it instead. Glad ya asked? lol

RE: Hospital breakfasts (dannybotz)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:16:17 GMT

Jennie

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Two funny stories, though. I had a boyfriend who had his leg amputated at Bethesda Naval Hospital in, oh, about 1990.

????lololol just kind of struck me as funny!!

Re:Hospital breakfasts (dannybotz)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:55:13 GMT

My nephew was in Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick Nj a couple of months ago and they have quite a menu. You actually peruse the menu and then pick up the phone and order just like room service!! you can order as much as you want when you want as long as its in the parameters of your particular diet!! it was cool!! if you are hungry you can order a pizza at 2 in the afternoon. The food he tells me was really good!!

Re:Hospital breakfasts (lbjack)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:25:31 GMT

Many years ago, (early 1960's) I was a student nurse at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis. Their cafeteria was so good many outsiders came just to eat. You had your choice of breakfast meats, eggs, juice, pastries, cereal, etc. and it was all good. A small hospital near where I live now, bakes their own fresh bread daily. It is wonderful

Re:Hospital breakfasts, redux (MellowRoast)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:12:47 GMT

Never had a good breakfast or meal in a hospital room, but there are a couple of local hospitals with excellent cafeterias and have had great breakfasts and lunches there. Hard to believe, but true.

Re:Hospital breakfasts, redux (carolina bob)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:03:49 GMT

Last February, I slipped on the ice at home and broke my hip and wrist, and this meant a 19-day stay at Saint Margaret Mercy Hospital in Hammond IN. The staff there couldn't have been nicer, but the food....uggghh! Just thinking about it makes my stomach turn upside down. The worst, most INEDIBLE swill I've ever put in my mouth! Horrible, awful, disgusting... every day I dreaded mealtimes. Food was so bad that I found myself wishing that someone would bring me a Big Mac - now that's bad!

Re:Hospital breakfasts, redux (brittneal)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:54:45 GMT

i sppent 3 days in kettering hosp. in dayton for bladder cancer. the menu is very pretencious. everything from omlettes to burritos for breakfst. like 8 choices. ruebens, burgers, pizza, salads for lunch. chicken florentine with ceasr slad for dinner
cheesecake for dessert.
i was in such misery with bladder spasms from the catheter i didnt eat much more then the desert plus soup.
it seemed very good tho.
britt

Hospital breakfasts, redux (Rick F.)

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:36:32 GMT

Paul: As you know, I'm okay and Jan & I will see y'all next weekend!

Twinwillow: No, I wasn't too worried about retribution. My wife is a Sr. VP there and I was treated quite well. But I was writing on a borrowed computer (hers), a notebook w/ a 13" monitor and tiny keyboard, and it was very difficult to use. Add that to some pretty serious drugs and it made writing anything pretty hard work, though entertaining for any spectators!

I did have a friend who would bring me care packages on request.

Re:Hospital breakfasts (BillyB)

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:20:44 GMT

Hospital Food has come a long way. You can now order almost anything you want, anytime you want it. The Hospital knows they need to do whatever it has to, in order for you to pick them again. Its like anyother business, if you falter, someone else will be at the top of their game, and take your business away........Bill

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Jennie)

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:57:41 GMT

Bigapetite

It took a bit of bribery by letting her take home a portion of the tails but for 2 or 3 nights in a row, we ate like kings.
Since neither of us suffered from anything that would put us on a restricted diet, (me from broken bones, he from burns) We even had a night nurse mix up drinks and sneak them into the hospital in a 2 liter 7 up bottle.

Man! Those night nurses rock, eh? As a kid I had one bring me Italian Ice at 2am. So awesome.

I've been in the hospital a number of times, but usually I'm so hungry that I eat every dang thing they bring me. Even the scrunched-up soggy thing under the lid that was once toast but is now steamed and anything but flat. Rarely has the food been so bad I wouldn't eat it. Apart from the beef broth when I was on clear liquids once. Forget it. Chicken I could do, but the beef broth was the pits.

Two funny stories, though. I had a boyfriend who had his leg amputated at Bethesda Naval Hospital in, oh, about 1990. I ate breakfast in the cafeteria with his parents, and the best thing I could say about the scrambled eggs was that they were certainly not powdered, but made from actual fresh eggs. I can say this, because they still had the shells in them. Just the whole egg, thrown in and scrambled, shell and all.

The last time I was in was when my now 5-year-old son was born at Carroll County General in 2003. The food was just fine, but I remember one morning having ordered tea with breakfast. Breakfast came with everything one could want, a piping hot carafe of water, sugar, sugar substitute, milk, and even half-and-half. However . . . no teabag.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (mncorn)

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:56:54 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by CCinNJ

While in the hospital giving birth to my oldest son, a nurse brought this big tray of breakfast. It was not for me (I could not eat anything but ice chips, in "natural" labor) but for my ex-husband. It was Thanksgiving morning and the "poor guy" was stuck in the hospital. He was smart enough not to touch that tray.

I do understand your position. I picked up my wife at the hospital in MN on Christmas day. Maddy was born on the 23 of Dec. When we got to my parents house for Christmas day, I held Maddy and my wife held her fork. It was great. Madelyn’s middle name is “Noel”.

Todd

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Bigapetite)

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:31:02 GMT

I was involved in a bad accident on the N.Y Thruway many years ago and was in Kingston General Hospital for 3 months.
I found out rather quickly that when I crossed out items on their menu and wrote in things I wanted, Suprisingly, I actually got them.

At the time I worked for a frozen food distributor and one of the drivers came up and dropped off a case of lobster tails that seemed to "fall off the truck".
I called the nutritionist and asked if they could prepare them for myself snd my room mate.
It took a bit of bribery by letting her take home a portion of the tails but for 2 or 3 nights in a row, we ate like kings.
Since neither of us suffered from anything that would put us on a restricted diet, (me from broken bones, he from burns) We even had a night nurse mix up drinks and sneak them into the hospital in a 2 liter 7 up bottle.
It was one of only 2 times that I was ever hospitalized but they literally had to use a crow bar to get me to leave

RE: Hospital breakfasts (njkim)

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:23:19 GMT

I just got home yesterday from a 7 day visit in the local hosp. Most of the time was spent in ICU, so that time doesn't matter. But what does matter is that the rest of the place is run by ONE menu now. It has b,l, and dinner options. They prefer that you call them for your choices, up to 10 minutes before hand. Well, I can't tell you how good it was. It all 'tasted' homemade from the shroom and cheese omelette to the meatloaf dinner with fresh gravy. Quite impressive. And if I forgot to call a day or two, they rang me up.

At some times I was so badly ill, and to be treated a little better then normal was a really special thing.

Rick, I don't know where you are in the country, but I am in NJ and if there is ever anything I can do to help you out, just reach out. I hope you are feeling better soon.
kim d.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (CCinNJ)

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:17:15 GMT

While in the hospital giving birth to my oldest son, a nurse brought this big tray of breakfast. It was not for me (I could not eat anything but ice chips, in "natural" labor) but for my ex-husband. It was Thanksgiving morning and the "poor guy" was stuck in the hospital. He was smart enough not to touch that tray.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Twinwillow)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:35:18 GMT

The worst food I ever had in the army was 10 times better than the best food I ever had in the hospital.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Twinwillow)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:33:17 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Rick F.

I'm hospitalized even as I write. Will add comments to this epic when discharged. For now,

Afraid of retribution, I fear?

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Top)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:24:44 GMT

If you wake up in a hospital it's a good thing.
Eat what they bring you and shut up. It could be worse.
MUCH worse.
Top

RE: Hospital breakfasts (starfire62)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:54:05 GMT

i had hip replacement last october,the food was awful.i remember lying in bed and hearing the food cart coming and i was so excited till i lifted the lid off it.yuckkkkkk

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Sundancer7)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:20:50 GMT

Rick I hope you are OK. I have never found good food in the hospital. As you are aware, my wife spent six months at M. D. Anderson in Houston and the breakfast there was barely OK.

I hope you are OK.

Paul E. Smith
knoxville, TN

RE: Hospital breakfasts (Rick F.)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:28:27 GMT

I'm hospitalized even as I write. Will add comments to this epic when discharged. For now,

See post of 02/06/0009

RE: Hospital breakfasts (mncorn)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:05:46 GMT

I spent 7 days in 2005. It was ok. They do not have any compitition.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (stricken_detective)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:43:45 GMT

I hate the breakfast at the Mayo Clinic. Eisenberg (Methodist Hospital) has thee WORST scrambled eggs (tasted powdered) and runny oatmeal. I usually get a box of frosted mini wheats, a banana & some milk after my bloodwork.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (RookieCAF)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:59:32 GMT

I cook at a Nursing Home, And I can say our Breakfast is not our best opportunity to shine. Oatmeal. Hard Cooked Eggs, Those hold well, but toast and scrambled do not. sadly. It takes over an hour to do toast for the house, and once you put it in the pan into the steam table, irt may be hot, but its not really toast anymore either.

Days we have Pancakes and French Toast however, I'd say our breakfasts are damn good. Those are done to order on the griddle.

Its also a challenge to keep things hot, even with hot plates and pellets the stuff drops in temp quickly :(

RE: Hospital breakfasts (hatteras04)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:01:03 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by umbada

I like the simplicity of breakfast in a hospital. A hard boiled egg, a small bowl of oatmeal, a cup of orange juice, a cup of milk, a cup of coffee, maybe buttered toast. Simple and satisfying. I mean, it's the hospital for gosh sakes, not a hotel.

That is one of my safe choices in the cafeteria. There is always a basket of hard boiled eggs and some kind of hot cereal if nothing looks good and the line to get eggs to order is too long.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (umbada)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:38:13 GMT

I like the simplicity of breakfast in a hospital. A hard boiled egg, a small bowl of oatmeal, a cup of orange juice, a cup of milk, a cup of coffee, maybe buttered toast. Simple and satisfying. I mean, it's the hospital for gosh sakes, not a hotel.

RE: Hospital breakfasts (doggydaddy)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:11:21 GMT

=== has an enormous population of observant Jews and the kosher restaurants, caterers, markets and even a kosher nursing home to feed them. This hospital serves many members of the kosher-keeping community and has for years, but they couldn't figure out how to arrange for fresh meals for Jewish patients? Ugh, infuriating! ===

I bet it is even tougher for muslims. The bed needs to point to Mecca.....

mark

RE: Hospital breakfasts (brittneal)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:07:04 GMT

Having some serious health isses I spent a lot of hospital time. Most in the VA. Comparing VA to a regu;ar hospital for food is comparing Poderosa to Morton's.
Most hospitals want to give you a liile exta care w/food these days to overcome the stigma of yoears past.s
Va, half the time is crwam o wheat or oatmeal. wHEN THE va OFFERS EGGS OVER THE REHEATING IN THE CART LITERALY CEMENTS THE HARD COOKED EGG TO THE PLATE.
oN sAT. THE DO GIVE OUT BISQUITS AND GRAVY.
aLSO REG. HOSPITALS WANT YOU TO FEEL SPECOAL. The give you a menu card after the previous meal and you choose the next. Schnazzy!!!!
britt