{"id":9221,"date":"2023-11-24T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/uncategorized\/providing-comfort-and-care"},"modified":"2023-12-18T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T03:49:27","slug":"providing-comfort-and-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/news\/providing-comfort-and-care","title":{"rendered":"Providing comfort and care with food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:89.44rem;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Providing comfort and care with food<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_9222\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9222\" class=\"wp-image-9222 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/ckw-dietetics-food-services.jpg\" alt=\"Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford Dietetics and Food Service team\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/ckw-dietetics-food-services-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/ckw-dietetics-food-services-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/ckw-dietetics-food-services-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/ckw-dietetics-food-services-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/ckw-dietetics-food-services.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dietetics and Food Services team goes above and beyond to ensure patients receive tasty and nutritious meals.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>The team of 95 staff deliver a comprehensive clinical nutrition service to Caboolture Hospital inpatients and outpatients, as well as providing safe and nutritious food to patients and mental health consumers.<\/h4>\n<p>Together, they prepare, cook and deliver more than 1000 meals a day throughout the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In an unfamiliar and sometimes daunting hospital environment, the Dietetics and Food Services team delivers patients comfort through food while ensuring their nutritional needs are met for a faster recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Caboolture Hospital Director Dietetics and Food Services Michelle Suter said nutritious food is essential to healing and recovery for patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team has a range of initiatives in place to ensure all our patients can enjoy their meals as much as possible,\u201d Michelle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, many of our patients are required to eat texture modified foods while they recover, which some can find unappealing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo help make this food more palatable, food services staff provide texture modified food that is moulded and looks so realistic, we often fool patients, families and new staff!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn April 2023, we implemented an on-demand room service model for patients on our acute wards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis allows patients to order the food they want, when they want it, and avoids<br \/>\nunnecessary food waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far the model has seen great success and high patient satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford Directorate Department of Dietetics and Food Services knows the importance of nutritious and tasty food for patients recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":9222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-caboolture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}