"Quyana, and Good Eating..."

We consider in-patient meals a vital part of your care and recovery. Be assured that your care team understands your particular dietary restrictions -- if any. Patients without dietary restrictions may order their meals from the Cafe YK Daily Menu; just ask your care team for assistance!

Traditional Foods

For our Native Alaskan in-patient customers our goal is to provide culturally relevant foods when ever possible. Our daily menus include an abundance of soups, stews, and fish, intentionally prepared for your particular tastes. We have a space on our patient menu to select a "Native Meal Option if Available." Please mark this selection "Yes" if you wish to be provided with some more traditional meal selections.

The following foods are examples of some items we can make available either at regular mealtime or for patient snacks when we get requests:

• Tundra Tea
• Egamarrlluk (Boiled Fish) -- cod, salmon, halibut
• Plain Baked Fish (cod, salmon, halibut)
• Fish Soup
• Fish Head Soup
• Reindeer Burger
• Baked/Braised Reindeer Meat
• Reindeer Sausage
• Reindeer Stew
• Canned Sardines
• Assaliaq (Fry Bread)
• Canned Fruit
• Suggaliq (Pilot Bread & Suluunaq (Canned Salmon)
• Atsat (Berries) -- frozen blueberries & fresh strawberries when in season
• Akutaq (Eskimo ice-cream)

Our only limitations are the individual patients' dietary restrictions.

The highest priority in the Hospital Dietary Department is to provide excellent customer service and even better food. If at any time during your stay with us your food or service is less than appreciate please have someone contact us. We will do our best to address your concerns.

Quyana and Good Eating...

Michael Callahan
Executive Chef
Dietary Department,
Yukon Kuskowim Health Corporation