Good Samaritan Hospital Appoints New Executive Chef

John Mitty Tuesday, March 19, 2013

West Islip, NY - Niels R. Polund was recently appointed executive chef of Food and Nutrition Services. He will be leading the culinary team in implementation of a new room service program. Polund has more than 30 years of experience in culinary art for restaurants and hotels. He is specialty trained in French cuisine, baking and pastry and is credited with developing customized menus.

His extensive experience in culinary operations included maintaining food costs and scheduling and training of kitchen staff including interns from NYIT Culinary Program.

Polund graduated from Aalborg Tekniskskole with honors. Following his apprenticeship at Hotel Randers, he trained at Rebild Park Hotel in Denmark. He was a silver medal winner in the 1981 Food Olympics, Munich, Germany and is a member of Chaine des Rotisseurs.

He and his family reside in Lake Ronkonkoma.

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Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center is a 537-bed (including 100 nursing home beds), voluntary, not-for-profit hospital located in West Islip.  The medical center, which has more than 3,775 employees and 900 physicians on staff, had nearly 28,000 patient admissions and nearly 100,000 emergency department visits in 2012.  Good Samaritan is a member of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. Visit the website at www.good-samaritan-hospital.org.

Good Samaritan provided more than $43 million in community service and charity care in 2011.  The medical center supplies residents with the tools necessary to maintain good health.  This includes community lectures, screenings, health fairs and other community programs and services.

jmitty@longislandyellowpages.com

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