Nutrition & Food Services

Nutrition and Food Services

Vision:  Better Nutrition.  Better Health.

Mission:  To promote, protect and enhance health and healing through food

Philosophy

Food is Medicine.

Nutrition and Food Services aims to promote, protect and enhance health and healing through the food experience. Optimal nutrition is essential to maintaining and restoring good health, preventing and managing chronic diseases, including malnutrition. Food provides warmth, comfort and enjoyment, as well as nourishment. Each meal served is an opportunity to support healing, recovery and quality of life.

Guiding Principles

  1. We support patient-centred care through offering a variety of high-quality, nutritious foods based on preferences and therapeutic needs.
  2. We prepare food using recipes developed by our team with special effort to source ingredients locally where possible.
  3. We ensure menus reflect Canada’s Dietary Guidelines/Canada’s Food Guide (2019) and diverse nutritional needs.
  4. We encourage positive meal experiences that support health, recovery and quality of life.
  5. We promote a food first approach to recognize the important role of food in health, recovery and quality of life.
  6. We recognize food’s important role in celebration and tradition.
  7. We believe familiar and culturally appropriate foods serve as comfort and nourishment.
  8. We are committed to learning about traditional ingredients and methods of harvesting and preparing food for health of body, mind, spirit and the planet.
  9. We aim to create supportive environments where the healthy choice is the easy choice.
  10. We support seamless nutrition care across settings and services.

Information about our NFS team and the services on this website include:

What We're Working On
Dietitian Handbook

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is pleased to announce the publication of the third edition of the Dietitian Handbook. 

This concise, quick and user-friendly resource was written by clinicians for clinicians. It includes practical guidance for nutrition assessment and nutrition support, for adults and pediatrics, with an overview of a number of clinical states. 

Over 100 health professionals including dietitians, pharmacists, physicians and nurses contributed to the content. It’s a great resource for nutrition students, practicum students, new and experienced dietitians and other health-care professionals with an interest in nutrition and nutrition support. 

The Handbook consists of:

  • 376 pages
  • 38 sections of great content
  • Over 85 images and tables reproduced with permission

Email DietitianHandbook@saskhealthauthority.ca for information about how to obtain a copy.