Hospitals are notorious for bad food. When patients eat poorly, it can increase the price of their stay by 30%, and malnourishment costs the US healthcare system billions each year. But offering good food isn’t easy. Many hospitals operate on negative margins. Some have a budget of as little as $4 per patient meal according to US Foods.
Now, one New York City medical network is changing the cliche thanks to an unexpected character: a Michelin-starred chef. We paid a visit to learn how Northwell Health went from getting one-star food reviews to serving up five-star dishes like seared scallops and lobster linguine.
00:00 – Intro
01:24 – Bad Reviews
02:32 – Head Chef Bruno Tison
03:09 – Hiring Michelin-Starred Chefs
04:08 – Saving $250,000
05:29 – Cooking Food
02:22 – Serving Patients
08:40 – Taste Test
10:18 – Why Hospital Food Sucks
10:50 – Trump’s Medicaid Cuts
11:19 – Hospitals Are Closing
12:30 – Credits
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Seeing Michelin-starred chefs actually care about making purees and meals taste amazing—instead of just treating food as an afterthought—is such a game changer❤
Lobster and Scalops? That’s where my $1300/mo premiums are going. Healthcare is corrupt. Glad I married a doctor.
Food IS medicine! Fantastic report!
NYU Langone Hospital Langone Kimmel Pavilion has excellent patient food. Northwell Health / Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC has God-awful patient food. Nursing care at Lenox Hill is also hit or miss. Terrible. The differences are like day and night.
Now let’s do this in schools. Children think and learn better with healthy food in their tummies.
THIS! 💯
He might be the only Michelin star chef working in a hospital but there have been professional chefs working in hospitals for years doing the exact same thing.
Not every hospital can afford a chef or scallops or lobster bc the food budget is not a priority, healthcare is the priority.
Trust me when I say every hospital director and chef wants to make good food for their patients. If a hospital has the budget for good food, every hospital would serve good food.
Unreal to think that someone would be using coffee pods and not an industrial size coffee maker for that number of clients. That director should have been fired the day they bought a pod machine.
Chefs are not Michelin Starred, restaurants are Michelin Starred
Remember kids, if you’ve got money – you’re allowed to be Healthy.
And if you’re poor, you deserve to rot <3 America
This brings me hope. Now let’s do this in prisons, and watch the people CALM their nervous system as their nutritional needs are met.
Its crazy how the “solution” was just hiring people who knew what they were doing and then letting them actually do it
Worked there. This is not real.
This is wicked cool
The VA should watch this and start serving this type food, and us who have to be there have a choice on what we want.
I was once in a hospital in New Zealand in which patient food was comically bad and not much of it. The food provider was a major American based but international food company. The only explanation that I could come up with was that there was corruption in the system.
this is amazing. the uk needs to take note. same with schools!
Healthcare should NEVER be about Profit or money at all and should be a Right funded by the government and or taxes like the UK ( yes the NHS in the uk has problems but it’s better then getting a bill like the US)