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Morrison Healthcare: Building a Global Food & Nutrition Program with Kelly Morse Nowicki, Margaret Steele, Tim Pierce

Morrison Healthcare & Mayo Clinic: Building A Global Food And Nutrition Program

Learn more about how viable partnerships and a forward-thinking food strategy help drive healthier behaviors and accelerate change at our nation’s top-ranked hospital.

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Dietitian-Led Swallow Screening and Assessment for Early Detection of Swallow Difficulties and Improved Nutritional Intake: A Commentary

Jennifer Doley, Maureen Janowski, and Sunitha Zechariah emphasize the critical role registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) can play in early identification and management of dysphagia, a condition that impairs swallowing and can lead to malnutrition and poor health outcomes. The article calls for expanded training and support for dietitians in this area, highlighting the potential for improved patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency. [more]

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New Patient Menu to Debut at Monument Health

Compass One Healthcare and Monument Health invited hospital staff to West Auditorium in Rapid City Hospital for the New Patient Menu Expo. Various dishes were made available for sampling, including Sweet Heat Buffalo Chicken Salad, Pressed Cuban Sandwich, Butter Chicken Bowl, Chicken Tortilla Soup and Chocolate Mug Cake dessert. [more]

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Redefining the Front Door of Healthcare: Finding success by bridging gaps in patient care and experience scores in emergency departments

As healthcare facilities across the country see an increase in emergency department (ED) admissions, it is even more important that food and support services teams are providing innovative solutions that support the needs of patients as well as hospital staff. Modern Healthcare published a Q&A with healthcare leaders Thomas Deringer, PhD, Tripp Grooms, MHA, FACHE from MUSC Health and Martin Wright which dives into the impacts that strategic solutions for food & EVS in the ED can have on the healthcare experience. [more]

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Atrium Carolinas Medical Center and Levine Children’s Hospital: Bringing patients joy through food

Welcoming guests at a hospital is a challenging type of hospitality. One can design beautiful sun-drenched buildings, send cheerful staff to check in with patients frequently, and employ providers who work efficiently—and even still, it’s not likely that the guests would choose to be there if they had the option. The Morrison Healthcare foodservice team goes to great lengths to brighten patients’ days through special meals, birthday celebrations and more. [more]

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Morrison Healthcare Chefs Named in FoodService Director’s Healthcare Recipe Contest

Two Morrison Healthcare chefs have received the honors of winner and runner-up in Foodservice Director’s Healthcare Recipe Contest. This was the first year this contest was held, and winners were selected based on creativity and success of the menu items, quality of ingredients, and the story behind the dish.

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Food Is Medicine: UVA Health Dialysis Food Pharmacies Are Transforming Health and Inspiring Hope Across Virginia

Did you know one in three adults in the United States is at risk for kidney disease? And one in seven adults has kidney disease — and 90% of them don’t know it? That’s according to the National Kidney Foundation. At UVA Health, our Dialysis Food Pharmacy Program is marking five years of providing our patients with easier access to healthy foods to help meet their nutritional needs. [more]

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Room Service Toolkit: Securing Efficiencies and Improving the Patient Experience

Morrison Healthcare’s Room Service Program is an on-demand meal ordering program that affords the patient greater perceived control over their meals and improves patient satisfaction. The Room Service Toolkit is a collection of best practices to optimize the Room Service Program itself. See how our Patient Solutions support team collaborated with onsite leadership to identify an opportunity to improve meal delivery times, and positively impact food quality and the patient experience through the Room Service Toolkit.

Better Communication Driving Richer Patient Experience At OhioHealth Grant Medical Center

Compass One Healthcare’s exclusive partnership with Relay is improving staff communication and having a meaningful impact on patient care at Grant Hospital. The Food and Nutrition team at OhioHealth Grant Medical center needed to get a more complete view of its people to manage their overall operations more efficiently. Grant Medical Center chose Relay, the cloud platform for frontline teams, to help do that.

Enabled Tech Helps Keep Nurses At Top Of License

TaskVue provides clinical care workers visibility into the patient meal process. From not ordered to delivered, the status for every patient meal is visible through a single dashboard. By implementing the Morrison Healthcare exclusive patient meal ordering and delivery system–the most affordable, best-in-class solution on the market– we can keep nurses operating at the top of their license by shifting non-clinical tasks to support services and providing more predictability around delivery and service requests.