A New Beginning

NUTRITION Our goal is to provide you and your baby with optimal nutrition during your hospital stay. Meal selections are based on the orders of your physician. A catering associate will come to your room daily and offer you choices from the menu. If you have any questions about your dietary orders, please ask your physician. Family members are also welcome to bring you food, as long as it adheres to your dietary orders. Pantry: You’ll find coffee, ice water, and juice in the pantry, as well as a microwave and refrigerator. Use orange labels located on top of the refrigerator to label food with your name, room number and date. Food in the pantry refrigerator is discarded after 3 days, so you must relabel any items on the third day that you want to keep. Guest Meal Voucher: Our guest meal voucher program will allow friends and family to enjoy a meal of their choice with their loved one. How to get a meal voucher: Visit the cafeteria cashier and purchase a $3 guest voucher, or at the Atlanta campus, you can visit the Lotus Blossom Café (also known as the coffee shop) in the Atrium. How to order a guest meal: When a catering associate comes to the room to get the patient’s meal order, present the voucher and order the guest meal too. The meals will be delivered at the same time for your convenience. What comes with the $3 meal voucher: The voucher entitles you to a full patient meal (chef selection either #1 or #2 for that meal), or you can use it for the $3 face value in the cafeteria.

VISITORS Please discuss Northside’s current visitation policy with your nurse because it is subject to change. You may invite one adult as your support person to be with you 24 hours a day. This person is welcome to spend the night with you in your room. This is a great opportunity for your support person to ask questions and learn how to best help you at home. VISITOR PARKING Atlanta: Available in the PINK parking deck across from the Women’s Center on Hollis Cobb Drive (per hourly fee). Daily parking passes can be purchased at the kiosk in the parking garage. Cherokee & Forsyth: Available at no charge in the open lot in front of the Women’s Center.

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Your Hospital Stay