title: The "take a nurse to lunch" program. A unique focus group improves and promotes food services.
abstract: Dan Booth is the director of hospitality services for MaineGeneral Health. For this 450-bed health care organization, he directs six departments, which include environmental services, food and nutrition, security, laundry services, telecommunications, and transportation. In this article he describes how his Take a Nurse to Lunch program operates, what its benefits are, and how it was implemented.
mesh_terms: D017144:Focus Groups; D005521:Food Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008281:Maine; D008612:Menu Planning; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D016730:Program Development; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care