As hospital administrators continue to work toward increasing patient satisfaction while reducing food waste, an increasing number of hospitals are turning to some form of patient room service at meal times. For the implementation of any room service program to be successful, it must be efficient Read More >>
Competition Thrives and Cultures Change
The largest single issue facing health care providers in the United States continues to be controlling costs. Increasing competition in the marketplace demands that hospital kitchens continue to expand patient choices and improve services, while striking the right balance between improving patient Read More >>
Healthcare Foodservice Checkup
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 >>
Healthcare Food Trends for 2017
Each new year brings advancements in the food service industry that have the potential to revolutionize the way health care food service providers feed patients, employees, and visitors who come to their facilities. Among the growing trends for 2017 are investments in equipment and personnel that Read More >>
Hospitals Strive to Change Lives through Changing Food Service Fare
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 >>
Better Nutritional Standards for Meals
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 >>
Boost HCAHPS Scores with Vision Software
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 >>
Using Benchmarks to Gauge and Improve Efficiencies
Benchmarking is an essential practice for healthcare administrators, whereby institutions measure performance against governmental or industry standards— or benchmarks— to establish basic standards for care. These benchmarks help ensure that resources are being used effectively and Read More >>
Healthier Food: An Overview
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 >>
Choose an Integrated Software System Which Promotes Patient Safety
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 >>
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