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Hospital Management, Feed Thyself

“The yellow puck of sadness,” as one Ottawa Hospital patient’s wife described an egg dish, may be history. Managers, including the CEO, at the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, hospital ate its food for a week and came to a consensus that things needed improving. While food services director Kevin Peters said he was confident in the existing menu’s nutritional value, that was not enough. The traditional blandness of hospital food “made the food feel like it is not nutritious,” he said. “Ethnic” foods will join the menu, he said, and even meal times need more flexibility. “We know patients don’t usually eat at 8:00 a.m., noon, and 4:00 p.m.,” he said. (AC/Ottawa Citizen) ...“All food is ethnic food” — except traditional hospital food.