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.
Honestly, I never expected hospital food to be this impressive. That chef is doing something special!
2:15 so rewarding the best ones, whilst cutting budgets of the worst ones… dosent that make the food worse?
An excellent and informative reporting…and mouth-watering as well. Good job! Thank you for sharing this video.
Farm raised salmon is terrible. Its artificially colored.
Quality matter alot
When I got my gall bladder out I couldn’t leave until I ate AND kept it down. I tried for hours with various things. Finally I ordered toast. I got the most toasted toast you ever saw and ate the whole piece happily. 😂
Food really matters when you are in pain, drugged, and your world has been flipped upside down.
That chef knew it was an untapped opportunity!
It’s the least you can do for sick patients paying $300 for a Tylenol -feed the sick and dying. How much of the bland hospital food was thrown away because it wasn’t palatable
I have proven to my friends over and over the fresh is cheaper. This is wonderful! As a retired RN, 30+ years of hospital work, I wish I’d worked there!
Reminds me of Miller Hospital Vegetarian Cafeteria in Cebu City, Philippines. They have the best hospital food in the country. Very delicious. People visit there to buy food or dine even if we are not patients.
Smart.
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I just read an article saying that hospitals are investing more in hospitality for visitors than in actual healthcare for patients.