In a hospital supply device with an elongated, substantially horizontally extending supply housing with a connector for an electrical power supply and/or for the provision of technical gases. At least one a patient reading light is arranged on an underside of the supply housing. The patient reading light is formed by a number of light modules arranged next to one another in the longitudinal direction of the supply housing, of which a subgroup corresponding to the desired position of the reading light can be activated in a reading light mode.
