Hospital Nutrition

Proper nutrition is vital to staying healthy but it’s more critical for patients recovering in the hospital. The Advocate Health Care and Abbott completed a new study that optimized nutrition care while in the hospital and found it could help reduce 30-day readmission rates by 27% and the average hospital stay by almost two days for malnourished patients.

One in three people across the U.S. enter the hospital malnourished, which often goes unrecognized and under-treated. In order to help …read more