Aramark Launches New Telehealth Program to Digitally Connect Hospital Inpatients with Clinical Nutrition Services
08 Janeiro 2024 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
First of its kind program with Teladoc Health®
provides hospitals with access to both technology and talent.
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK), one of the largest employers of Registered
Dietitians in the U.S., today announced a new program designed to
remotely connect its highly skilled clinical dietitians with
hospital patients through cloud-based technologies.
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The program includes a first of its kind technology service
agreement with Teladoc Health, where Aramark can offer
communication technologies to hospitals leveraging Teladoc Health’s
Solo platform integrated with Microsoft Teams. Aramark is also able
to facilitate the program through a hospital’s existing telehealth
platform. Participating hospitals must have a clinical nutrition
service agreement with Aramark.
“We are pleased to offer hospitals this innovative and
customizable new program to connect our clinical dietitians with
their patients,” said Bart Kaericher, President, and CEO of Aramark
Healthcare+. “Utilizing Teladoc Health’s technology will help us
enable vulnerable patients in underserved areas to better receive
care as lack of technology or physical location will no longer be
barriers.”
Aramark’s program is thoroughly vetted with each state’s
regulations to ensure patient privacy and to comply with individual
payer requirements. Hospitals choosing Aramark’s telehealth program
will have access to a regulatory compliant medical nutrition
therapy program, trained clinical dietitians, Teladoc equipment
hardware, services, technical support, and remote device
monitoring.
Like nurses, clinical dietitians are in high demand and many
hospitals, particularly in rural locations, face hiring shortages.
Through this service, Aramark can link its state licensed clinical
dietitians with inpatients at hospitals hundreds of miles away.
“In addition to providing patients with greater access, this
technology also helps us to recruit more clinical dietitians,”
Kaericher added. “Now they can perform their jobs across a wide
range of clients in the states where they are licensed.”
An example of the flexibility was captured at Aramark’s pilot
site at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. The time
to fill a vacant clinical dietitian position at UMC Lubbock is 6
months, and when one of the clinicians needed to temporarily
relocate to another part of Texas, UMC Lubbock became the first
pilot site. Using the hospital’s technical platform, the leadership
team and clinician completed all Aramark program requirements
within two months, and she was able to continue to work full time
as a pediatric dietitian. She is currently attending rounds,
assessing, and educating patients, and continues to be a vital part
of the medical team.
“Medical nutrition therapy is an important aspect of our care
team and the innovation offered with the Aramark program has
enabled us to leverage technology to retain difficult to recruit
dietitians and continue to provide, safe, high-quality care to our
patients,” said Jeff Hill, Senior Vice President of Support
Services and Government Relations at the University Medical Center
in Lubbock.
About Aramark Healthcare+
Aramark Healthcare+ provides proven, tailored food services,
environmental services, and facilities management solutions to more
than 600 healthcare facilities in the United States. Our strategic
approach redefines the hospital experience and helps improve
patient outcomes by combining hospitality, science, and culinary
expertise to promote the total wellbeing of every person we serve.
Patient Engagement Advisors leverage a research-based methodology
to help healthcare organizations express their missions though
personalized patient solutions, while our exemplary healthcare
nutrition excellence program, delivers an evidence-based approach
to medical nutrition therapy. Learn how Aramark Healthcare+
partners with healthcare facilities to serve, solve and strengthen
at https://www.aramark.com/industries/healthcare or follow us on
LinkedIn.
About Aramark
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) proudly serves the world’s leading
educational institutions, Fortune 500 companies, world champion
sports teams, prominent healthcare providers, iconic destinations
and cultural attractions, and numerous municipalities in 18
countries around the world with food and facilities management.
Because of our hospitality culture, our employees strive to do
great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and the
planet. Aramark has been recognized on FORTUNE’s list of “World’s
Most Admired Companies,” DiversityInc’s “Top 50 Companies for
Diversity” and “Top Companies for Supplier Diversity,” Newsweek’s
list of “America’s Most Responsible Companies 2023,” the HRC’s
“Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality,” and scored 100% on the
Disability Equality Index. Learn more at www.aramark.com and
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