Nutrition
Nutrition The future of your health is determined by your eating habits.
Food plays a key role in human health at various stages of life, with doctors constantly monitoring their patients’ health observing improvements in patients’ health as a result of changing their diet and eating healthy foods.
Food is like medicine; it not only resists disease but also strengthens the immune system and reduces the chances of developing diseases common in our time, such as heart disease, cancers, diabetes and obesity.
Al Kindi Hospital has taken it upon itself to establish the Nutrition Department, one of the hospital’s supportive and vital medical departments, which plays a key role in completing the hospital’s medical care cycle.
About our Nutrition department
Al Kindi Hospital’s Nutrition Department provides healthy food for our patients that meet food standards to suit their different tastes. The department also provides standardized therapeutic foods that are included in the treatment process to assess the patient’s nutritional condition and as part of the treatment services and under the supervision of professional chefs with high quality expertise and skills who specialize in making meals for hospital escorts and guests and all diet patients.
The Department of Nutrition provides integrated high quality nutritional care under the supervision of a group of nutritionists with the latest scientific findings in the field of therapeutic and clinical nutrition, providing safe and balanced healthy diets and teamwork to meet the needs of the beneficiaries of our medical services.
Staff in the nutrition department
The nutrition department consists of:
- The head of the department of nutrition that runs the department and nutritionists who cooperate with the medical staff to provide comprehensive nutritional care to patients in the hospital, supervise daily meals and ensure their safety within the highest quality control standards.
- The chef and his assistants responsible for preparing food and meals for staff and patients at the hospital.
- Nutritionists and food service workers.
Policies and standards in the department of nutrition and kitchen
Ensuring the safety of food and its absence from biological and chemical hazards from the time it is received until it is prepared and delivered to all departments in accordance with quality standards and policies.
- Monitoring and controlling food products at all stages such as receiving, separating and storing the product, ensuring storage temperature, as well as cleaning, cutting and sorting.
- Documenting data, storing files and communicating with food suppliers.
- Identifying the entrance of raw materials, waste exits, etc.
- Policies to separate foods containing allergens from other foods.
- Follow the highest standards of sterilization in all preparation rooms within the section.
Cafeteria
The cafeteria is open daily and is located on the ground floor of the hospital to meet the needs of hospital guests and patient escorts
Services provided by the Nutrition Department:
- Educate patients about the diet that suits their health so that they can know the healthy and balanced food that can be eaten even after discharge.
- Visit patients in their different departments, take into account their nutritional desires and meet all their observations.
- Meals are provided to patients and their companions depending on the health status of each patient.
- Cooperation with the medical team in monitoring the positive or negative development of patients’ daily health and changing their diets accordingly.
- Training students from various Jordanian universities in nutrition and diets.
- Meals are served to staff on a monthly changing menu.
- Staff training courses and lectures are held by nutritionists and supervising chefs.
- Assess and manage the cases of patients in need of artificial nutrition support.
- Follow-up distribution of meals.
Meal times for patients and their escorts
Meal services for patients and their companions begin on the following dates:
- Breakfast at 6 a.m.
- Lunch at 12:00 p.m.
- Dinner at 6 p.m.
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