{"id":5066,"date":"2019-07-31T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-gordon-food-service.pantheonsite.io\/success-story-post-discharge-meals-feed-need\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:16:00","slug":"success-story-post-discharge-meals-feed-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfs.com\/es-us\/ideas\/success-story-post-discharge-meals-feed-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story: Post-Discharge Meals Feed a Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most people, comfort food is all about eating homestyle favorites. To patients discharged from a central Florida rehabilitation center, comfort food means peace of mind at home. It\u2019s all thanks to the hospital\u2019s \u201cFood for the Soul\u201d program, which provides three days of free meals for every patient returning home.<\/p>\n

Pork Carnitas. Chicken Alfredo. Penne Bolognese. Beef Pot Roast. Those are just some of the meals patients receive as they leave the 120-bed Orange City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center<\/a>. It\u2019s a lifeline that allows recovering patients to get settled after spending weeks away from home.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of these folks are older\u201470s, 80s or 90s\u2014and there\u2019s no food in the refrigerator and nobody\u2019s gone to the store for them. When they get home from rehab, they need food so they can even eat supper that first night,\u201d says Kevin Copley, the center\u2019s Nutritional Services Director.<\/p>\n

\"FoodAs they exit the rehab center, patients get two cloth bags filled with three complete breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The meals include selections from the lineup of Gordon Food Service Tastefully Balanced meal, a portion-sized to-go meal that combines flavor and nutrition in a convenient heat-and-eat container. There\u2019s also shelf-stable milk and juices, plus serving ware.<\/p>\n

Getting the ball rolling<\/h3>\n

The Orange City rehab team also sends home a resource manual to help with nutrition during recovery. There\u2019s information from choosemyplate.gov<\/a>, a packet on modified diets from Hormel Health Labs and a listing of area food delivery services.<\/p>\n

Since launching in March 2019, the Food for the Soul program has taken off. It\u2019s being put in place at all 42 Southern Health Care Management hospitals in Florida and North Carolina. All it took was seeing the need and recognizing the benefits. <\/p>\n

The catalyst was an 84-year-old hip-replacement rehab patient. He was the primary caregiver for his wife, who has dementia. While the man was in rehab, a daughter provided care at home. But when he left rehab and the daughter returned to her home out of state, getting meals was a challenge. Mobility issues made it hard to cook, and driving to get food was not an option.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all pretty upset about it, but we didn\u2019t have anything to support him,\u201d Copley says. \u201cThen I learned about the Tastefully Balanced meals and learned how they could be used to help our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took about two weeks to develop a proposal. Copley determined three days of free food\u2014about $50 per discharged patient\u2014was what he could afford, averaging 45 discharges a month. His goal is to expand the free meals to five days or even a week, possibly within a year.<\/p>\n

Easing the transition home<\/h3>\n

\"KevinWhen the word comes in that a patient is being discharged, Copley\u2019s team gets a call and fills bags with frozen meals and dry products and presents the food as patients exit. Preferences are taken into consideration when bags are packed. A vegetarian, for example, isn\u2019t given meat products. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a gift \u2026 we don\u2019t bill anybody for it, not the patients or their insurance,\u201d Copley says. \u201cThis is a gift from our community to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patients benefit because the first day is critical. Home health care often doesn\u2019t start immediately and support from family or neighbors is not always available. <\/p>\n

The hospital system also is seeing positives. \u201cThis is part of what supports keeping people nutritionally stable so that they don\u2019t go back to the hospital for dehydration or lack of nutrition,\u201d Copley notes.<\/p>\n

At a presentation to Florida Hospitals, which sends many patients for rebab services, discharge planners loved the Food for the Soul idea and its positive approach to recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat helped me realize what it could do and the potential it had for making a difference,\u201d Copley says. \u201cI knew whether anyone else did this, we were going to do it. Because it\u2019s just the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comfort food indeed.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Tastefully Balanced Meal Program, contact your Gordon Food Service Sales Representative.<\/em>  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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