Meals-on-Wheels

Participants must live within the city limits of Northfield. There must be space available in the program.

Call the Culinary Services Department at Northfield Hospital at 507-646-1022. They will register you for Meals-On-Wheels. If space is not available, you can be added to the waiting list.

We need to know your name,  address,  phone number,  referring health care provider’s name, the name of the person who will be responsible for the payment of your bill, and when you want delivery of Meals-On-Wheels to begin. We will also need the name and phone number of a contact person whom we can call in the event we are unable to reach you.

The staff of Northfield Hospital’s Culinary Services Department prepares the meals.

Volunteers from the community deliver  the meals. From day to day, it is likely that a different person will deliver your meal.

Meals-On-Wheels are available seven days a week, 365 days a year, including holidays. You must, however, commit to at least five meals per week.

The cost of the meal is $7.15.

Your meal will consist of an entrée that may be meat, fish or poultry. Also included will be a potato or pasta, a cooked vegetable, a salad or juice, bread with margarine, a dessert and milk, depending upon your health care provider’s diet order. You may request skim milk, 1%, 2% or whole milk, and either white or whole-wheat bread with your meal. No other substitutions, please.

Your meal will be delivered between 12:15 and 1:00 p.m. Delivery begins at 12:15 p.m. and may take up to an hour, depending on the number of people receiving meals that day.

Please be ready for delivery between 12:15 and 1:00 p.m. As part of COVID-19 precautions, meals are delivered to the door; the driver/delivery person does not enter your home. They'll knock to let you know your meal has arrived, and will leave it outside your door. If you live in an apartment building, your meal will be delivered to the lobby. 

Please call the Culinary Services Department, (507) 646-1022. Let them know of your concern. They will check on your meal and, if there is a problem, they will arrange for the delivery of your meal.

Please call the Culinary Services Department, (507) 646-1022, before 10:00 a.m. on the day that you will not need the meal. Tell them that you want to cancel your meal for one day. Be sure to specify the date that you’d like to have your delivery canceled and that you would like the delivery to resume on the following day.

Please call the Culinary Services Department, (507) 646-1022. Tell them that you want to cancel your Meals-On-Wheels permanently. Let them know the last day on which you want to receive a meal and be sure to specify that, at the present time, you do not wish to have delivery resumed.

Any meal prepared by the Culinary Services Department and sent out with a driver will be charged to you at the rate of $7.15 per meal.

Please call the Culinary Services Department at (507) 646-1022. If there is a space available on your route, we can send an extra meal for your guest. The cost of the additional meal will be $7.15.

Northfield Hospital will bill you monthly for your meals. The statement will be for a specific calendar month and will note the number of meals you received during that month and the dates on which you received them. Meals from the previous month that have not yet been paid for will be included in your current bill. If you are  eligible for third party payments, you may not receive a bill at all.

Call Patient Financial Services at Northfield Hospital (507) 646-1399, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.

You must return the upper portion of your statement and indicate on this statement the amount of your payment. Make your check payable to Meals-On-Wheels and mail it, with the upper portion of your statement, to Northfield Hospital, 2000 North Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057-1697.