The delivery of personalized, low-sodium meals to the homes of heart failure patients just out of the hospital has the potential to help them avoid rehospitalization in the days ahead, a new study shows.
Initially giving a few thousand meals only to frontliners at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), their efforts quickly spawned donations to 4 more health institutions. Image courtesy of Xi Yan Group When word got out, the project expanded to preparing and delivering 10,000 meals to: National Unive...
On average, clients received 6.25 meals per week with meal delivery starting, on average, 8.95 days postdischarge. Ninety-three of the 121 clients also elected to receive the HomeMeds program. Client self-report of health care utilization (e.g., hospital readmission) at three months and six ...
A delivered meals service supplying centrally produced, precooked, chilled foods to 24 hospitals was introduced in Plymouth Health District between August 1985 and July 1986. Over 18 months, 3393 food items were examined microbiologically, using the criteria recommended by the Department of Health and...
Home-delivered meals programs appear beneficial in reducing hospital costs by shortening LOH and in supporting the immune system (reflected by TLC) for chronically ill elderly.doi:10.1016/S0002-8223(98)00355-1T.L. AdamsR. ChernoffR.M. Winger...
An assessment of the food items and cooking appliances available in the home was also performed.Results: This dissertation suggests that among the hospital-discharged older adults studied: (a) many had a variety of foods available but reported being unable to prepare meals, (b) those who ...
This week alone, they've delivered over 200 meals toSt. Michael's Hospitalas part of an initiative they've been supporting since the start of the pandemic. Over a year ago, the United Bakers team, alongside community partnersNoshfestandLiving Jewishlyteamed up to help create these gratitude ...
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The Agency’s founder, and first director, alerted the nation to the unmet nutritional needs of the elderly, during congressional hearings in the late 1960’s. From its modest origins in an unused hospital building, the agency has developed over the last FIFTY years to become the major ...
arobots are also used in american hospitals at one hospital a robot takes meals from the kitchen to the sick people;s romms it never loses its way because it has a map of the hospital in its computer system 机器人也用于美国医院在一家医院机器人作为饭食从厨房到病的人民; 因为它有医院的...