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VST Clients in the News
Paul Hubbard, VST Client, Earns Innovator Award
VST client Paul Hubbard, Associate Director for Food Services, Stony Brook University Hospital and The Long Island State Veteran's Home (Long Island, NY), will receive the prestigious Spotlight on Innovation Award from The National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management (HFM), to be bestowed at the HFM Annual Conference Hot Springs, VA, Sept. 15-19, 2008.
Hubbard has played a role in reducing the carbon footprint of the foodservice operations through a variety of action plans, including paperless reporting systems powered by technologies, recycling and education, and a focus on both food and non-food supply acquisition strategies.
HFM’s selection of award recipients is based on “innovation, impact on the healthcare facility, cost effectiveness, resourcefulness, uniqueness, quality improvement, expanding service parameters, and applicability to other facilities,” as outlined in the HFM nomination documents.
VST is proud to congratulate both Stony Brook and Hubbard for their industry leadership in this critical arena.
Room Service Courtesy
at Heritage Valley Health System Ranks #1 in U.S.
Yahoo Financial News recently featured VST client
Heritage Valley Health System, where Steve Mihalick, a long-time
innovator in room service systems, has taken service to the next
level. According to the article, “Patients at Heritage Valley
Beaver recently rated the courtesy of the person serving the food
number one in the nation as identified by Press Ganey, a national
measurement firm measuring 946 hospitals nationally. Heritage Valley's
Sewickley campus has sustained top ratings over 18 months.”
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more >
VST Client, Gwinnett Hospital,
Opens a New Facility
 The
brand new Gwinnett Medical Center-Duluth facility opened featuring
room service supported by the VST System.
Gwinnett
Daily Post >
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution >
Director of Nutritional Services Jim Behnke provided his insights
and advice about how to “wow” patients with room service
in the August 15, 2006 issue of FoodService Director.
FoodService
Director Magazine >
VST Client Voted President-Elect of ASHFSA
Bill Notte, MBA, Director Food and Nutrition
Services, University of Florida, Shands Hospital, Gainesville, has
been named as President-Elect of the American Society for Healthcare
Food Service Administrators.
Since joining ASHFSA in the early 1990s, Bill
has been very active on numerous local and national ASHFSA committees.
According to Bill, he has been "a member of ASHFSA most of
my professional life and have most of all valued the memberships
willingness to share information. ASHFSA provides each of us the
opportunity to face our challenges with the help of our peers."
Bill credits ASHFSA for helping him grow professionally through
their educational conferences and membership involvement. His past
ASHFSA involvement has been as a member of the Publications Committee
in 1993, as a roundtable moderator in 1994 at the Educational Conference
in Washington, DC (Cafeteria promotions for fun and profit) and
as a Board Member of the Philadelphia/South Jersey Chapter during
the 1990s. His career as a hospital food service director has been
split between 13 years as a contractor and 23 years as a self-op.
Bill has also given back to the field by being a preceptor for Framingham
State College and an adjunct Assistant Professor at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "All members should take the
opportunity to serve their professional organization. And I want
to help ASHFSA to continue to serve the needs of its members for
another 40 years plus," said Bill.
Kudos to VST Client
VST client Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington
Heights, IL has been selected by Fortune as one of the top 100 best
companies to work for in the US!
See
the list - Fortune magazine >
Extreme Makeover
For VST client Stony Brook University Hospital
(Long Island, NY), satisfaction levels and Press-Ganey scores have
significantly increased over the same period and a recently-approved
room service program should boost them further next year. Technology
is improving efficiency in the front and back of the house.
Full
text - Food Management Magazine (August 2005) >
Putting Patients in Charge
- Internet Based Room Service
VST customer Heritage Valley Health System
uses a new Internet solution from VST to support room service, improving
Press Ganey scores and employee morale while decreasing food costs.
Case
Study - Dietary Manager (March 2005) - PDF >
Press
Releases
HCI International Technology in Healthcare
Summit
HCI’s first-ever Technology Summit will
draw delegates from HCI member associations across the globe for
an extraordinary information exchange about emerging applications
of computer technologies to catering and foodservice management
in healthcare.
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New HCI Global Sponsor: Vision Software
Technologies, Inc. (VST)
Healthcare Caterers International (HCI) is pleased
to welcome VST as its new global sponsor. Under an unprecedented
10-year agreement, funding provided by VST will support the international
healthcare foodservice management organization in advancing global
networking and education, as well as publishing Healthcare Caterer
magazine, and providing Internet-based services to its 11 member
associations comprising 20,000+ professionals.
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Interactive Hospital Menus Reach Prime Time
Maybe it’s because a television close to
the bedside doesn’t feel like a “computer”. Maybe
it’s because there is no keyboard or mouse. But patients at
Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ, are embracing new, sophisticated
technology powering the ordinary “TV set” to place menu
control and more at their fingertips—the first system of its
kind in any hospital today, said Michael Babines, Vice Pres., Vision
Software Technologies.
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For a demo visit www.vstech.com/TV
VST Selected by Advocate South Suburban
Hospital
Advocate South Suburban Hospital of Hazel Crest,
IL, is gearing up for a major upgrade in patient service, using
the Internet-Hosted Patient Room Service solution provided by Vision
Software Technologies, Inc.
Full
text (MS Word) >
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text (PDF) >
Gwinnett Hospital System
Selects The VST System
Quick meal turnaround, tray-by-tray audit trails,
compliance with complex diet orders, and high-powered back-end management
tools are among the reasons Director of Nutrition Services Jim Behnke,
RD selected the VST Hosted Internet-based food service management
system for multi-site room service support at Gwinnett Hospital
System.
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Word) >
VST Selected by MedAssets Supply Chain Management
Vision Software Technologies will be joining the MedAssets Supply
Chain Management program as an approved vendor, effective April
1, 2006.
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text (MS Word) >
VST Announces Executive Reorganization
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text (MS Word) >
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text (PDF) >
VST Announces Death of
Co-Founder Tony Scarpino
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text (MS Word) >
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