This is my fathers 3rd stay at St. Als. Very nice hospital. They work hard on aesthetics clearly and their cafeteria food is pretty good.
I had a taco, sweet potatoes and mac n cheese
Breakfast croissant was pretty good also
My son loves their pizza. And like most hospital cafeterias they're reasonably priced.
Coffee is $1.43. But if you save your cup the refill is only 90cents.
I have only 2 issues. They claim to be heart healthy but that mac n cheese was clearly processed and the cheese on the breakfast sandwich was American. I know that cost effectiveness is an issue but a little cheddar or jack wouldn't kill them.
Also. And this is big for me. I didn't see any recycling receptacles in their lunch room. Now maybe I missed something in the 4 times I was there but all I saw was plastic paper and tin going in the same garbage cans with food and etc. perhaps they do something on the back end ...but their plates are of questionable Material for recycling. Not sure.
*note. I was appalled that they used so much plastic for utensils AND surprised. But I saw a note in my dad's meal that says please forgive our serving style or something like that and said they were remodeling the kitchen.
I'm going to assume they AT LEAST have regular reusable flatware usually. Probably plates too.
I did see a recycling can in the family waiting room for neuro ...
They also have a subway and a coffee bar on the 1st floor by imaging and that coffee is pretty dang good!
Enough about the food. All three visits, the nursing staff were amazing. Tentative, kind, responsive, communicative. Great facility!
The surgery waiting room is comfortable, soothing and has fireplaces! Yup! and super close to cafeteria (uh-oh there I go with food again).
Good lighting and music, nice quiet space for family.
However, the administrative staff- admitting, transportation, patient advocacy, case workers, social workers are less helpful. I was lucky to find a friendly face here and there but for the most part, they were non responsive and in some cases downright rude. The ladies on switchboard clearly don't care for their jobs very much. :/
Ironically the worst treatment we received was in the social work and patient advocacy departments. Wait. Wut??? In particular one incident that cost my dad his admission bed and we had to rearrange everything.
At the end of the day, a wonderful place for my dad to recover read more