All patients receive regular food, prepared, packed and served by the hospital kitchen. Patients who need special or dietetic meals should inform the doctor or department nurse as soon as they are admitted, and the appropriate food will be prepared for them.
Choice of menus for patients who are not on a restricted diet
In some hospital departments, the Food Department offers patients each morning a choice of three menus for the next three meals – lunch, supper and breakfast for the following day.
This service will gradually be extended to all departments in the hospital.
In the maternity ward there is a dining room where a buffet breakfast and supper are served.
Meal times
Breakfast – 8:00
Lunch – 12:00
Supper – 17:30
Kashrut
The food served in the hospital is kosher under the supervision of the Jerusalem Chief Rabbinate.
Patients wishing to receive food with Haredi certification can purchase subsidized vouchers at a cost of NIS 13 per meal. These vouchers can be purchased from the Ya’al Volunteers Service office on -1 floor.
Patients must hand in the vouchers to the Food Department before 9:00 a.m,
in order to receive these meals (meals under haredi supervision are only available for patients with a regular diet, and only for the main lunch meal).
Visitors are requested not to bring cooked food into the hospital, other than fruits, vegetables and soft drinks.
Kosher food may be brought from home only after obtaining the appropriate authorization from the rabbi of the Medical Center, which should be shown to the guard at the entrance to the hospital..
Diet
The nutritional services team and hospital dietitians are available to help patients and to adapt the menus to suit the instructions of the attending physician.
The hospital dieticians can be consulted directly, or through the doctor’s or nurse’s department.
You are invited to visit the Hadassah Nutrition Department website.
After being discharged from hospital, patients can continue with nutritional follow up at the outpatient clinic, by making an appointment with the dietitians service – Tel: 02-6776651.
Food services for visitors and family members
In addition to the cafeterias and food and beverage vending machines, vouchers can be purchased for midday meals in the employees’ dining room at a cost of NIS 32 per meal. These vouchers can be purchased at the Ya’al Volunteers Service office on –1 floor, between 10:00 – 13:00 hrs.
On Fridays and Saturdays, eve of holidays and holidays, free meals are served to family members in the Brith Hall on the mezzanine floor.