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Detroit hospital receives a healthy food makeover

 Mar. 19, 2014

Henry Ford Health System has cut seven tons of fat from food and increased fruit and vegetable purchases by 10% annually in an effort to offer patients more healthy food choices.

People

Confessions of Becky Ellis

 Mar. 19, 2014

Becky Ellis, senior director of dining and nutrition services for Carilion Clinic, loves duck confit, hates haggis and believes bacon-flavored items have been done to death.

Operations

University of Iowa Hospitals tackle waste issue

By Paul King on Mar. 19, 2014

When a media report slamming the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for the amount of pre-consumer food waste it generates came out in late 2012, Food and Nutrition Services Director Joan Dolezal knew she couldn’t ignore it.

Operations

St. Louis Children's Hospital chef provides nourishing meals

Mar. 19, 2014

Certain places have reputations for serving bad food. Places where you’re stuck with few options under cramped conditions. Airplanes. Jails. And, of course, hospitals.

Workforce

Rex Healthcare rolls out “Black Hat 2.0”

Mar. 18, 2014

The Black Hat chef program, one of the most talked about culinary training modules in healthcare foodservice, has become obsolete at Rex Healthcare, in Raleigh, N.C.

Menu

Signature Series: Stews

Mar. 17, 2014

For many, it’s been a long, brutal winter. Heat up your cold-weather menus with these hearty stews. As part of our continuing Signature Series, we asked operators to share some of their popular stew dishes.

Menu

March 2014: Recipes

Mar. 13, 2014

Click through a Snapshots of all the recipes for the March 2014 issue. This month features Szechuan, mini desserts and leafy greens.

Steal This Idea

Credit card assurance

Mar. 11, 2014

When we started our guest tray program, we didn’t accept credit card payments and we were averaging about seven guest trays per month.

Steal This Idea

Community outreach

Mar. 10, 2014

I teamed up with our marketing and wellness departments to create a blog on Baptist Health’s website.

Operations

Minnesota hospital wants to expand charitable program

Mar. 10, 2014

One of the “proudest and saddest” foodservice-related programs at Hennepin County Medical Center, in Minneapolis, according to Food and Nutrition Services Director Bill Marks, is the monthly Food Shelf program.

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