Healthcare food service facing new challenges

As healthcare systems continue to consolidate, they must compete with other providers


Healthcare food service are facing new challenges as healthcare systems continue to consolidate, and must compete with other providers, according to an article on the Foodservice Equipment & Supplies website.

Foodservice is impacted by the increased requirement for departments  to be part of systems that use  the same vendors to increase purchasing power.

Teams must get creative to find innovative solutions that make the most of available resources.

"Increasing revenues for both retail and malnutrition diagnoses will become more important to move the department to less of a cost center and more of a revenue producing department," the article said.

 Read the article.

 

 



June 5, 2015


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