Actually, the experience at the Valley is considerably different now than it was late last year. It's true that last year we felt the pain of the Regional Medical Center closure, but our administration was extremely responsive. They created attending only teams to take non-teaching patients i.e. cases without teaching points. In addition the day float and chest pain services were restructured. So far this year, noone has had to be reactivated and noone has gone over cap.
We do get yogurt on our meal cards - we also get haagen-daz, starbucks, dasani, candy and chips