nutrition
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Clinical Care
How Hospitals Can Improve Patient Nutrition and Promote Healthy LifestylesHospitals can promote good nutrition and healthy lifestyles through many programs, including plant-based menus and educational efforts.
Clinical Care
'Food Pharmacies' In Clinics: When The Diagnosis Is Chronic HungerIt's not that patients are starving. It's that they may have a lot of food one day and none the...
Clinical Care
Screening for Social Determinants of Health Limited at Healthcare OrganizationsMost hospitals and physician practices do not screen for all five of the social determinants of health featured in the...
Clinical Care
New Guidelines Promote Expansion of Bariatric Surgery to Treat ObesityNew guidelines for bariatric surgery update recommendations that were set more than two decades ago.
Innovation
Loyola Medicine's VeggieRX Gives Low-Income Patients Free VegetablesThe program hopes to address the widespread problem of food insecurity and 'food deserts' in some urban areas.
Clinical Care
Most American Doctors Failing Their Overweight and Obese PatientsFor patients with no chronic conditions, only 20% of overweight patients and only 40% of obese patients receive lifestyle advice...
Clinical Care
Beyond Pre-Surgery Fasting: Geisinger Boosts Nutrition to Speed Up RecoveryAfter a successful pilot saw lengths of stay decrease 39% or more, the health system is rolling out its tactics...
Clinical Care
Penn Medicine to Phase Out Sugary DrinksThe health system wants the food it serves to align with its missions to care for and educate patients with...
Clinical Care
Boosting Surgical Patient Nutrition Slashes ReadmissionsFor surgical patients who received nutritional intervention in the hospital, the 30-day readmissions rate was cut nearly in half.
Strategy
The fake hypertension war