The Food and Nutritional Services Department at the NYS Veterans' Home at Oxford provides nutritional meals to all the residents of the Home. Hickory Hall, our waited services dining room, allows for greater resident meal options as well as socialization at meal time in a home like environment.

Dining areas on each unit afford residents who can not come to Hickory Hall a home like meal time environment while under the care of our Nursing staff. The residents benefits from our state of the art "Heat On Demand" tray system that assures hot, nutritious meals for each resident.

All residents receive not only the meal plan prescribed for them by our Medical Staff, but snacks throughout the day. Every effort is made to meet the personal wishes of our residents at meals and at snack time.

The facility's resident menu is a three week cycle menu that affords each resident a minimum of two choices per meal and as many as six choices per meal. This is in additional to any personal food preferences a resident may have.

Residents are encouraged to participate in the facility's menu planning at the monthly meeting of the Dietary Resident Council, which is open to all residents of the Home.

The New York State Veterans' Home at Oxford also offers meals to residents' visitors for a nominal fee. Daily meals as well as holiday meals are available to visitors either on the units or in the Hickory Hall Dining Room. Holiday reservations are encouraged and can be arranged at the Security Desk. Daily meal tickets are purchased at the Security Desk.

The Medical Nutritional Care of our residents in handled by our in-house team of three Registered Dietitians and two Diet Technicians. The clinical staff is also available to discuss meal preferences with residents and family members. The team works closely with the Medical Staff, the Speech and Language Pathologist and the Nursing Staff to provide a dietary regime that maintains or improves the nutritional health of our residents. Residents requiring tube feedings and mechanically altered diets as well as those able to tolerate a regular diet are all closely monitored by the clinical nutrition staff.