Focus: Patient Satisfaction/Experience

Food service changes coming to new Canadian hospital

Patients will now be brought a menu and have their order taken verbally, much like they would if they were at a restaurant


Food service changes are coming to new hospital in Campbell River, British Columbia, according to an article on the Campbell River Mirror website.

Patients will now be brought a menu and have their order taken verbally, much like they would if they were at a restaurant.

Two factors have made this change possible: improved technology enabling the digital transfer of information more efficiently throughout the building and the construction of a kitchen facility within the hospital that was designed with a broader and more diverse food service system in mind.

The facility will be cooking the majority of the food on-site.

Read the article.

 

 



December 20, 2016


Topic Area: Food Service


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