Cornwall Hospital Introduces New Dining Experience for Patients
2022-09-27
Cornwall
Community Hospital (CCH) has introduced an entirely new patient-centred dining
experience. In partnership with Compass One Healthcare, the Comfort Kitchen
menu launching this week at CCH will offer patients homemade comfort foods to
help stimulate appetites, increase food intake, and improve their overall
experience while in hospital.
The Comfort
Kitchen menu offers patients with a choice of two Daily Chef’s Specials at each
meal period and an Always Available section. Patients browse the menu, choose
their meal, and provide their choices to CCH dietary staff who visit them at
bedside prior to mealtime.
Comfort
Kitchen’s menu items are cooked from scratch using fresh ingredients; the
hospital’s kitchen was specially retrofitted to accommodate this new process.
Menu items
available from the Comfort Kitchen at CCH include chicken parmesan, Indian
butter chicken, roast beef with gravy, black bean soup, quesadillas, egg and
cheese breakfast sandwiches, and a selection of fresh pastries.
The hospital
has also introduced all-new diet plans to coincide with the Comfort Kitchen
menu to accommodate a variety of patients who may require different textured
foods, consistencies, etc.
CCH is only one
of two hospitals in Ontario to implement Compass One Healthcare’s Comfort
Kitchen.
“Not only will
this new menu provide our patients with comforting and familiar flavours, but
it also gives them more selection and variety,” said Jeanette Despatie, CCH’s
President and Chief Executive Officer, adding that she is “proud of this
patient-centred dining experience now available at Cornwall Hospital, in
partnership with Compass One Healthcare.”
“The goal of
our Comfort Kitchen is to continually elevate the perception of what is
typical hospital food. It offers comforting and familiar flavours that take
patients away to a place where they find solace, such as their home, their
favourite restaurant or dining with friends,” said Leta Hill, EVP of Compass
One Healthcare. “Combining wholesome and flavourful ingredients packed with
nutritional benefits, these meals will provide a more comforting and nutritious
mealtime experience for patients at Cornwall Hospital,” Leta added.
