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  • Title: Healthcare foodservice report 1993. Getting ready for reform. Interview by Mitchell Schechter.
    Author: Bennett N, Evert D, Gessel A, Fowler K, Johnston D.
    Journal: Food Manage; 1993 Jun; 28(6):70-9. PubMed ID: 10126416.
    Abstract:
    Hospital foodservice directors & dietitians are facing the greatest challenge of their careers -- to prepare, along with their institutions, for the most thoroughgoing reform of America's healthcare system ever proposed. Healthcare institutions across the country are seeking the means to offer enhanced patient services & gain competitive advantages by forming new alliances, new patient-centered care systems & cost-reduction programs. To aid in these efforts, their foodservices are developing comprehensive cross-training schemes, inter-departmental teams with other service groups & new ways to cut operating subsidies. Here's how five hospital foodservice departments are using cost controls, revenue building, quality management processes & enhanced efficiencies to help their institutions prepare for the changes ahead.
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