News & Press

In response to a drop in retail sales due to the pandemic, Morrison Healthcare launched InstaEat, a mobile-ordering system that’s now in more than 50 Morrison operations, including UK HealthCare on the University of Kentucky campus. Learn more here.

Morrison Healthcare foodservice staff at Arkansas Children’s Northwest Hospital in Springdale, Ark., recently created and served their own dishes in honor of the hospital’s diversity and inclusion week.  [Read More]

Modern Healthcare announced its ranking of the Top 150 Best Places to Work in Healthcare during an unprecedented year when all of healthcare was focused on battling COVID-19. The editors of the magazine were featured in a virtual presentation where they counted down the winners’ list, with participants tuning in from home offices all over the nation. This year Morrison ranked 7 our of the Top 150. To see the full list of honorees and their rankings, you can click here.

You don’t need to avoid snacks if you’re trying to eat healthy. In fact, the right snack can tide you over between meals and keep you energized and alert. Smart snacking helps keep your weight in check and prevents you from filling up on junk food. Learn more from Elizabeth Timms, Morrison Healthcare Dietitian at UVA Health.  [Read More]

Good nutrition can help you prevent infections, heal faster, and feel stronger. Answering questions concerning malnutrition is Morrison Healthcare’s Wendy Phillips, MS, RD, CNSC, CLE, NWCC, FAND, Vice-Chair of the Malnutrition Committee American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). [Read More]

Morrison Healthcare has been recognized with the 2020 Best Concept Award in the Best Menu Concept category for Beet Root, which leverages the nutritional advantages of the root vegetable in the concept name to give client locations in the healthcare market a brand that is not only distinctive and unusual but appealing from both flavor and health perspectives. [more]

Compass One Healthcare Awarded for Global Sustainability Leadership

The Business Intelligence Group named Compass One Healthcare, powered by Morrison and Crothall Healthcare, as a winner of two 2020 Sustainability Awards. Morrison earned the Sustainability Initiative of the Year and Crothall earned the Sustainability Service of the Year award. The Sustainability Awards honor those people, teams and organizations who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice or overall mission. To see more about the specific awards they have won, see our press release.

Morrison Healthcare and CoxHealth have partnered with the Springfield Community Gardens to start a farm down the road from the hospital. System director of food and nutrition, Jason Bauer, says that they want to provide organic, healthy food to people in the Ozarks and they have big plans for this farm. [Read More]

Families should not need to fret over how their loved ones will be fed during a hospital stay. That was the sentiment behind the decision by Minnesota’s St. Cloud Hospital to add halal options to its menu. A hospital stay is stressful enough, both for the patient and the patient’s family. For patients whose food preferences are dictated by their religion, being able to find meals that meet their needs can be another source of stress. [Read More]