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