by The Food and Nutrition Services (FANS) department includes the hospital’s food retail, patient meal services, and clinical nutrition services.
The FANS offices are the base for the Diet Office and Room Service Call Center, Food Service Administrative Staff, and Clinical Nutrition Staff.
FANS uses a room service patient menu that serves 1,300 prepared-to-order patient meals daily. Our retail offerings include The Gathering Place and Starbucks at UM Health-Sparrow Lansing and the Courtside Grill at the Michigan Athletic Club. Each of our facilities offers fresh, unique, prepared-to-order specialties daily. We also have extensive catering services.
The clinical staff of board-certified dietitians and nutritionists provides nursing care and medical nutrition therapy to approximately 1,500 inpatients per month and provides outpatient clinical nutrition services to an additional 200 patients per month. Clinical nutrition services include inpatient care, specialty clinics, individual outpatient nutrition care, home care, hospice services, outpatient group classes, resident training and community outreach events. UM Health-Sparrow’s medical nutrition therapy service includes care for cardiac, diabetes, renal, gastroenterology, critical care, obstetrics, pediatrics, neonatology and oncology patients.
Food and nutrition services are available daily from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. For questions or more information, please call 517-364-2456.
