Meals and Dining Options - Patients and Visitors - UF Health (2024)

Menus subject to change without notice.

Places to eat - UF Health Shands Hospital

Cafeteria

Located on the first floor, the UF Health Shands Hospital cafeteria features a complete breakfast, lunch and dinner menu that includes hot meals, soups, On the Go, and desserts. Nutritional information about the menu is available. In addition to the Classic meal line, there is an exhibition food station where food is prepared at the station for guests. All food is available for takeout.

UF Health Shands Hospital Cafeteria Menu

Monday – Friday:

• Breakfast – 6 a.m.–10 a.m., Lunch – 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
• Limited Hot Service 2 p.m.–8 p.m.
• Grab and Go items and Snacks 6 a.m.-8 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday

• Hot Breakfast – 7 a.m.–10 a.m., Lunch Limited Hot Service 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
• Grab and Go items and Snacks 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Holidays

• Hot Breakfast – 7 a.m.–10 a.m., Lunch Limited Hot Service 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

The Sun Terrace

There are additional dining options located on the Sun Terrace, an outside patio north of the Food Court. These dining location hours are subject to change due to school holidays and exam schedules.

UF Health Heart & Vascular and Neuromedicine Hospitals

Raising Hope at Work Café

Café dining options include a full-service salad bar and small stations with a variety of healthy foods. The area has plenty of indoor seating for patients, visitors and staff, plus outside terraces on both sides.

• Mon-Fri: Limited Hot Service 2 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
• Mon-Fri: Grab and Go items and Snacks 2 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
• Sat-Sun: Breakfast 7 a.m.-10 a.m., Lunch 11 a.m.-2 m., Limited hot service 2p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Holidays: Breakfast 7 a.m.-10 a.m., Lunch 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Heart and Vascular Hospital Menu

UF Health Psychiatric Hospital

Located on the first floor of UF Health Psychiatric Hospital on the Spring Hill Campus. The UF Health Café Vista features Breakfast and Lunch options which includes hot entrée choices, soups, On the Go salads & sandwiches and desserts.
Daily features; fresh individual pizzas, made to order hot sandwiches and burgers are available throughout the day.

Nutritional information about the menu is available. All food are available for takeout.

• Café Hours are 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (7 days a week)
• Breakfast is served 7 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Lunch is served 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Daily features are served from 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
• MENU SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

1329 Building

Breakfast and Lunch, Monday–Friday
Classic Cuisine, Deli Sandwiches, Pizza, Pasta

• Breakfast 7:30 a.m.–10 a.m.
• Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
• Closed Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays

1329 deli menu

UF Health Professional Park

Professional Park – Main Floor
Breakfast and Lunch, Monday – Friday

• Breakfast 7 a.m.–10 a.m.
• Grab and Go items and Snacks 10 a.m.–11 a.m.
• Lunch 11 a.m.–2 p.m.
• Grab and Go items and Snacks 2 p.m.–8 p.m.
• Closed Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays

Professional Park Kiosk – Second Floor

• Monday–Friday: Grab and Go items and Snacks 6 a.m.-8 p.m.

Professional Park menu

Patient Meals

Each day, a Patient Nutrition Representative will come to the patient’s room and assist with meal selections. A paper menu will be provided upon request and for designated units. Contact a Patient Nutrition Representative at 4-3859 or 258-1810 with any questions or special food requests.

Special Dietary Needs

Check with a nurse or the Patient Nutrition Representative before offering food to a patient or, if you are a patient, before consuming foods that are not on the approved menu. Many patients are on special diets ordered by the physician because of the following criteria:

• The diet may limit food and drinks due to tests or a medical condition.
• Some medical procedures are necessary and the patient can’t be given anything by mouth (NPO) for several hours before the procedure.
• The physician has diagnosed an illness that could be helped by diet therapy.

Registered Dietitians

In conjunction with physicians and other members of the health care team, our registered dietitians provide individualized, age-specific nutrition plans to various inpatient and outpatient populations, including neonatal and pediatric intensive care, pediatric genetics, ketogenics, enteral and parenteral nutrition, medical and surgical intensive care, renal, burn, bone marrow and other transplants.

Registered dietitians are assigned to the patient units and can be reached by cell phone or pager. Ask your patient floor unit clerk for the Dietitian’s cell phone number. To contact a Dietitian after 5 p.m., call the hospital operator for the Dietitian on call (available until midnight). To contact a Dietitian during weekends, call the hospital operator for the weekend Dietitian pager number.

Special Occasions

UF Health is happy to provide a complimentary cake to celebrate a patient’s birthday. Please arrange 24 hours in advance by calling (352) 265-0111, extension 4-3859.