News & Press
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Medical school foodservice feeds research animals, reduces food waste
Posted: 03/13/2019Inspired by an article in FM, Garrett Lucas, CDM, CFPP, director of dining services at the Morrison Café at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, saw an opportunity to reduce food waste and to feed the research animals at BCM, one of the leading centers for biomedical research in the country. While BCM is technically a college with no patients to feed, it is served by Morrison Healthcare, making it a unique hybrid account.
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Mayo clinic success: Harvest cafe wows hospital
Posted: 03/13/2019FAIRMONT — The Harvest Cafe at Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont has been reaping a bumper crop of praise. Often referred to as the hospital cafeteria, the cafe has changed its look and its menu, much to the enjoyment of Mayo staff and patients as well as vigilant area residents who have discovered an economical place to dine.
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Local Partnership Earns Awards, Praise
Posted: 02/12/2019The partnership, which reduces the hospital’s food waste by providing weekend meals to hungry senior citizens, earned the 2018 Kentucky Aging Network Award for Outstanding Collaboration from the state’s Department for Aging and Independent Living. The program also earned the 2018 Outstanding Community Service Award from the Southeastern Association of Area Agencies on Aging, which represents a nine-state region.
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Healthcare Innovator of the Year: Morrison at the University of Miami Hospital
Posted: 01/29/2019When Morrison Healthcare took over operation of in-house foodservices at the three University of Miami Health System hospitals (UMH) a couple of years ago, it was given a mandate to “transform the campus to be what the University of Miami wanted to stand for, and that was a world-class organization,” says Kevin Sweizer, Morrison’s regional vice president who oversees operations at UMH. Quite a few changes and improvements in both infrastructure and service style later, Morrison led UMH to significant improvements in both the retail and patient dining programs.
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Students at UMMC and Morrison Executive Chef team up to lead food drive for Stewpot
Posted: 01/24/2019Morrison Executive Chef, Richard Curtis and UMMC student, Mariam Ebeid team up to stop food waste and help people in need. Together, they’re gathering food that would otherwise be thrown away for Stewpot, a community organization that provides aid to thousands of men, women and children.
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Morrison Healthcare Partners With Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to Support Malnutrition Learning Collaborative
Posted: 01/23/2019Morrison Healthcare, a leading national food and nutrition services company exclusively dedicated to serving the health care industry, announces a partnership with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals, and Avalere Health, a leading health care consulting firm, to help support further recruitment in the Malnutrition Quality Improvement Initiative (MQii) Learning Collaborative.
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Cleveland Clinic chef aligns personal and professional goals
Posted: 01/16/2019As a competitor on NBC’s athletic competition show “The Titan Games,” Josh Ingraham lifts hundreds of pounds, hones his mental and physical strength and brings it all back to his day-to-day work of helping people get healthier through nutrition.
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Morrison Healthcare Named to Training Magazine's 2019 Training Top 125
Posted: 12/03/2018Minneapolis, MN (November 28, 2018)—Training magazine, the leading business publication for Learning and Development professionals, today announced the winners for the annual Training Top 125, which ranks companies’ excellence in employer-sponsored training and development programs.
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