In a recent survey, over 200 foodservice operators and one thousand consumers were surveyed about the priorities, perceptions, and needs of patients, staff, visitors, residents and the ways health care operators play a unique role in foodservice.   In recent years, food has come to play a Read More >>

There's a growing trend among hospital food service operations that is focused on changing the way patients, employees and visitors eat every day.   As the nature of care moves from treatment to prevention, health care professionals stress the importance of starting by offering better Read More >>

Hospitals in the United States spend billions of dollars each year treating diet-related chronic illness. By improving nutritional intervention during admissions, hospitals have an opportunity, and increasingly, an obligation, to improve the long-term nutritional status of patients and prevent Read More >>

The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey establishes a national standard for collecting or publicly reporting patients' perspectives on care that would enable valid comparisons to be made across all hospitals. The survey is designed to produce comparable Read More >>

Research shows that one in every three hospital patients is malnourished--leading to longer and costlier hospital stays and increased chance of readmission. In today's changing healthcare landscape, it is important not to overlook simple nutrition as a foundation for wellness and more effective Read More >>

The dietary needs of hospital patients are as unique as their individual medical needs, and should be addressed with the same level of seriousness and attention to detail as medications and physical procedures. Allergies, swallowing and chewing problems and interactions between foods and prescribed Read More >>