YKDRH Dietary Dept.

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Food Services

Nourishing and well-balanced meals are an important part of your treatment and recovery. Patients admitted to the hospital are served

  • Breakfast between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m.,
  • Lunch between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
  • Dinner between 4:30 and 6:00 p.m.

Breakfast trays will include a menu from which you can order meals for the next day. Please mark your menu and return it to your nursing staff. If you are on a special diet prescribed by your doctor, you will receive menus tailored to your specific needs. If a family member or friend wants to eat in your room with you, he or she is welcome to bring food from home or to purchase a meal from the cafeteria or elsewhere and bring it back to your room. (Insert link to current patient menu)

Traditional Foods

Our goal is to provide culturally relevant foods to our patients when ever possible. We have a space on our patient menu to select a "Native Meal Option if Available." Please mark this selection "Yes" if you wish to be provided with some more traditional meal selections.

The following foods are examples of some items we can make available either at regular mealtime or for patient snacks when we get requests:
(Insert Yupik names for the following items preceding the English name)

  • Egamarrlluk (Boiled Fish) -- cod, salmon, halibut
  • Plain Baked Fish (cod, salmon, halibut)
  • Fish Soup
  • Fish Head Soup
  • Reindeer Burger
  • Baked/Braised Reindeer Meat
  • Reindeer Sausage
  • Reindeer Stew
  • Canned Sardines
  • Assaliaq (Fry Bread)
  • Canned Fruit
  • Suggaliq (Pilot Bread & Suluunaq (Canned Salmon)
  • Atsat (Berries) -- frozen blueberries & fresh strawberries when in season
  • Akutaq (Eskimo ice-cream)

Our only limitations are the individual patients' dietary restrictions.

The highest priority in the Hospital Dietary Department is to provide excellent customer service and even better food. If at any time during your stay with us your food or service is less than appreciate please have someone contact us. We will do our best to address your concerns.

Quyana and Good Eating

--Michael Callahan, Executive Chef
Dietary Department, Yukon Kuskowim Health Corporation