Nutrition & Culinary Services
Whether it's making sure you have a special dinner to celebrate the birth of a child, providing consistently satisfying meals for inpatients and their visitors or helping you create healthier meals at home, the Nutrition and Culinary Services team at Mount Nittany is dedicated to improving your health through food.
A team of more than 30 staff members work in our kitchens and serving areas to bring delicious, healthy meals to Mount Nittany Medical Center patients, visitors and employees. A team of clinical dietitians, who approve all meals in the this department, work to find the best meal plans for inpatients and offer consultations for outpatients as well.
Nutrition
A team of talented dietitians, lead by our executive chef, provide nutritional inpatient and outpatient counseling, complete with guidance on meal planning.
Culinary Services
Mount Nittany Medical Center has a robust, dedicated team that crafts more than 1,000 meals every day for our patients, visitors and employees. We're defying stereotypes about hospital food by presenting flavorful, thoughtfully presented meals.
Wellness Library
Healthsheet Article
Eating Out: Tips for Making Healthy Choices
It’s not easy to change the habits of a lifetime. Experts say that it can take 6 months just to change one old habit for a healthier one. That’s why gradual change is so important. These tips are reminders of the dozens of small ways you can change your habits when eating out. Don’t expect to follow each tip all the time. Think of the tips as options for handling situations that may have given you trouble in the past. Fast Food Tips Choose grilled chicken sandwiches and plain hamburgers. Remove the skin from fried chicken and choose mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and baked beans on the side....