title: Hospital redesign takes unexpected $2 million bite out of food service costs.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000191:economics; D017046:Cost Savings; D004046:Dietetics / Q000458:organization & administration; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005521:Food Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D020416:Outsourced Services