Healthy Food Initiative Catching on in Kansas Hospitals

By Bryan Thompson

Published October 5, 2015 at 9:00 AM CDT

Theresa Ater prepares the evening meal in the cafeteria of Russell Regional Hospital.

Few people associate hospitals with fine dining, hence the term “hospital food.” But a group of Kansas hospitals is out to change that. Not only are they working to make the food they serve to patients, staff and visitors better, they’re working to make it healthier. Heartland Health Monitor’s Bryan Thompson traveled to northwest Kansas to visit one of the hospitals involved in the effort.

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Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.

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