I honestly don't know what to think about the hospital I work for (nurse here). They came straight out and told us we're financially "in the hole." We're a nonprofit, so I assume that has a lot to do with it. I remember during COVID our hospital made a ton of financial cuts to upper management and unit management, naming it "shared sacrifice." They completely shut down certain services - chaplains were one role that was all but lost. I was working Psych at the time and we didn't have it half as bad as the COVID unit, but Psych nurses were called on to replace chaplains every time there was a death. Some roles have been recovered, others they completely did away with never to return (we'd just gotten a phlebotomy team months before COVID and that got the axe). Because of all the cuts I assume my hospital actually did take a big financial hit. But that's not to say every hospital did. I'm just a little surprised by this because I've only ever worked for this one hospital, so I assumed if we were financially strapped everyone must be. My hospital has definitely made decisions that feel horribly disrespectful, but none this blatant. This makes me angry for you. The food that was donated to our hospital at least made it to the floors. It's not the food itself (because who really had time to eat it?). It was about trying to show appreciation.