Senior living facilities have a lot on their plates, and one of the biggest tasks is ensuring their residents are fed. This includes not only consistent quality meals but nutritional ones as well. The need for proper refrigeration practices cannot be overstated, as they are crucial for ensuring food safety, quality, and taste. There are a number of challenges that kitchens in senior residential communities face, but with the right refrigeration solutions, they can be overcome.
Topics: healthcare, PremierPak
When it's time to upgrade your commercial refrigeration, there's an enormous opportunity to save money no matter what type of foodservice operation you run.
Topics: healthcare, energy efficiency, hospitals, Eco-Cool, Digital Scroll Compressor, redundancy
Hospitals are one of the largest consumers of energy of any type of commercial building. When you consider this fact in conjunction with rising costs and shrinking reimbursements, the ability to reduce energy consumption is an important way for hospitals and healthcare facilities to realize financial savings.
Topics: healthcare, energy efficiency, hospitals, Energy Study, HVAC, Lighting
Just like there's a movement in food toward sustainably grown or raised ingredients, there's a movement in foodservice design and construction to achieve those goals, as well.
Topics: refrigeration, healthcare, sustainability, USDA, LEED, USGBC
To say the state of healthcare is in flux is an understatement. With a changing political landscape, rising costs, new regulations, the emergence of new technologies and systems, and a host of other variables, what we see in hospitals today may be very different in 20 years. One thing that will remain a constant, though, is the need to feed patients, guests, and staff.
Topics: healthcare, nutrition, sustainability, Foodservice Director, hospitals
