{"title":"Hospital redesign takes unexpected $2 million bite out of food service costs.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Revamping food service can take a big bite out of costs. Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, jump-started a hospitalwide redesign program by tapping a benchmarking firm and saved $2 million in food services alone. Learn how the hospital identified savings opportunities and maximized that potential by coming up with some creative alternatives to business as usual.</p>","PeriodicalId":79903,"journal":{"name":"Health care cost reengineering report","volume":"4 1","pages":"6-9, 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health care cost reengineering report","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Revamping food service can take a big bite out of costs. Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, jump-started a hospitalwide redesign program by tapping a benchmarking firm and saved $2 million in food services alone. Learn how the hospital identified savings opportunities and maximized that potential by coming up with some creative alternatives to business as usual.
改进食品服务可以大大降低成本。伊利诺伊州皮奥里亚的圣弗朗西斯医疗中心(Saint Francis Medical Center)利用一家标杆管理公司启动了一项全医院范围的重新设计计划,仅在食品服务方面就节省了200万美元。了解医院如何确定节省机会,并通过提出一些创造性的替代方案来最大限度地发挥其潜力。