Healthcare trending: Business (and new babies) booming at Wexford Hospital

In this week’s recap of the Top 5 most popular Food Management articles in the Healthcare segment, faux taco truck revs up healthcare dining ranked as the week’s top story. Bryan Health’s Faux’d pop up “food truck” is a solution for bringing back healthcare dining and a great example of doing more with less. Among other stories in this week’s gallery:

In other news, Cura has taken over all Allegheny Healthcare Network (AHN) hospitals for management of all cafes and patient dining. That includes Wexford Hospital, where patient feeding began at the end of September with over 250 patient trays, 18 new parent in-room celebration meals and half a dozen take-home meals for new parents. Wexford Hospital’s retail café opened the second week of September, and by the end of the month, sales quickly climbed past $65,000, with a customer count of over 10,000. The average check was $6.19.