Dietary Services
Good nutrition is essential to your health. Making healthy choices based on your diet order will
help your recovery. We at RWJ Hamilton are committed to provide our patients with healthy meal choices.
Most of the menu items on our menu are based on the American Heart Association guidelines.
Nutrition Counseling
Often times our patients are diagnosed or treated for a condition that can benefit from nutrition counseling. RWJ Hamilton dieticians are specially trained in nutritional counseling for children and adults. To meet with a dietician, a prescription from your physician is required. Consult your insurance provider and call to make an appointment: 609.584.6557. Bring a significant other to your appointment—or for pediatric counseling, bring the whole family.
Do Your Meals Measure Up?
Make sure you're including the proper food groups, vitamins and minerals in your diet.
Use the Food Evaluator tool.
We are pleased to offer our patients the new 5 Star Cuisine Dining Program. Meals are served to all
patients utilizing a room service system where patients call and place a menu selection order for each
meal when they are ready to eat. Patients are given a restaurant style menu to choose from which will
be specific to the diet order prescribed by the physician.
Each meal is prepared individually based on your diet order and request. The meal is delivered to the
patient by an ambassador within 45 minutes.
Orders can be placed by the patient or a family member. Anyone who will be unable to participate in
the program will be noted by the nurse and will automatically receive a meal based on his/her diet order
and preferences. Ambassadors will assist patients who require help in placing diet orders. Family members
will also be able to place order for the patient via a pre-select menu that will be filled in advance, but
processed by the call center on date and time of the meal.
Your menu provides tips on healthy eating as well as a brief description of your diet -- which you will
take with you upon discharge.
One of the RWJ Hamilton ambassadors will visit each patient, provide him/her with the menu and explain
the 5 Star Cuisine Dining Program and its procedure.
Breakfast ordering begins at 6:30 a.m.
Lunch ordering begins at 11:00 a.m.
Dinner ordering takes place from 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
