Improved Nutrition Landscape Hospital
what did you eat the last time you visited a hospital? Most of us - especially when we are under stress - are more likely to pick up a bag of chips to a salad, especially if the first is much more abundant than the latter. The same is true of the hospital staff, clinicians and administrators -. Many of which are faced with nutrition options subpar daily 
complicating factors
In terms of well-being in the workplace, hospitals are a particularly sensitive case. For starters, they employ around 5 million people - about 1.5 percent of the entire population of the United States - many face long, changes in stress and work fast changing environment. To complicate the issue, hospitals also employ or support many different people with different levels of responsibility and education, GED student volunteers to staff certified M.D. and doctoral. And most of these people, said Winston, do not eat well at work. The nurse uses an average of five pieces of chocolate per shift - often deals with grateful patients and colleagues well-intentioned - and less than five servings of fruits and vegetables. Physicians, in turn, signal the lack of access to healthy food. Given the negative effects of poor nutrition on cognitive function, she added, it is crucial that those responsible for health care cultivate better access to better food choices.
Hospital Assessment Nutrition
With all this in mind, how do we quantify and describe a requirement of the nutrition of the hospital? For starters, Winston in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop Hospital Nutrition Scan Environment cafeterias, vending and Gift Shops (HNES-CVG) , which assesses four food environments separate a given hospital. Each area receives a rating based on different criteria. Cafeterias were evaluated based on factors such as the review of the menu, grab-and-go products and POS products, while vending machines were scanned for things like healthy food and drinks access . After testing the process with an inter-rater reliability study and digitization of 39 hospitals in California, how the hospital nutrition environments stack? "The short answer is" bad enough ", reported Winston. Cafeterias, on average, scored about 28 percent of possible points; ATMs performed slightly better with 32.7 percent; and gift shops were a disaster, earning less than 1 percent of possible points
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Setting a Precedent
Although the results are disappointing, partnerships like initiative healthy foods Hospital help hospitals find solutions. the initiative, which already has more than 700 members, partners with hospitals and food suppliers from the hospital across the country to offer healthier options throughout their facilities. member hospitals commit to three to four years of work to improve nutrition meals for patients, as well as the food options in the cafeterias on site guidelines. - ranging from nutrition labeling, removing deep fryers, wellness meals for children and adults and the increase spending on fruits and vegetables -. Are rigorous but effective
A major problem in the minds of the delegates was related to the financial impact of such a program. Food from fryers, unfortunately, makes a lot more money than fruits and vegetables - at least in the short term. Winston acknowledged that sales in the first cohort of hospitals have relied on at first, but then increased staff acclimated to the new food directory. Part of the reason why the program lasts as long as it does, she says, is so health officials can spend the first year rise in power of enthusiasm among staff, clinicians and administrators and create a positive change dynamically. partner hospitals and hospital food vendors include:
- Ann Hospital & Robert H. Lurie Children of Chicago
- Catholic Health Initiatives
- Centura health
- Mercy Hospitals & clinics
- Cleveland Clinic
- Eskenazi health
- Gundersen Lutheran
- Henry Ford health System
- Indiana University Health [1945022enfants]
- Kaiser Permanente
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
- MaineHealth
- Morrison Healthcare Food services
- Meridian Health
- Nemours children's health system
- Wexner Medical Center
- Oregon health & science University
- Sodexo
- St. Luke's Hospital
- UnityPoint Health
- University of Colorado Health
- University of Iowa Hospitals and clinics
- Washington Adventist Hospital
Like structure of our health care delivery system continues to change, the management of physical, mental and emotional health providers and staff will be a key issue for many health administrators. Learn how you can lead the discussion - and to shape the future of health care -. With a Master of Health Administration (MHA) from George Washington University
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