title: An integrated outsourcing solution at York Central Hospital.
abstract: Canadian hospitals struggle to balance the need to increase and improve operational services and quality with diminishing resources. Many realize that sustaining their organization depends on how well they focus their resources and talents on their core business, clinical care delivery. Outsourcing of non-core, non-clinical support services is a solution for many organizations. Most often, this is put into action one service provider at a time. In 2007, however, York Central Hospital (YCH) implemented Sodexo's integrated Comprehensive Service Solutions (CSS) for all its support service functions. In doing so, YCH achieved significant improvements in patient and staff satisfaction rates, substantial cost savings through improved operational efficiency from process improvements and leveraging technology investments, and increased retail food revenue.
authors.affiliation: York Central Hospital, in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
authors.forename: Jo-Anne
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Marr
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tam
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Simms
authors.forename: Feria
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bacchus
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D009864:Ontario; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D020416:Outsourced Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*