A retired senior Northern Health Authority official is convinced hospital food would be different if top managers ate the same food that91裸聊视频檚 served in their facilities.

91裸聊视频淩ather than health system executives feeding themselves the best catered food available at their meetings while they talk about 91裸聊视频榪uality patient-centred care,91裸聊视频� it should be a legal requirement that all of their snacks and catered lunches come directly from the local hospital exactly as it is fed to patients,91裸聊视频� wrote former chief medical health officer David Bowering in a social media post.

He says reliance on what he termed 91裸聊视频渃orporate food91裸聊视频� continues to increase and that healthy, fresh food is increasingly 91裸聊视频渂ecoming a distant memory.91裸聊视频�

91裸聊视频淭he better the hospital food gets, the better their own publicly-funded free lunches will taste. It91裸聊视频檚 called feedback,91裸聊视频� Bowering says of what health executives could be eating.

Adding to his comments in a subsequent interview, Bowering says Northern Health, like other large organizations, is increasingly relying on large food-providing corporations because of cost.

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91裸聊视频淲hat we91裸聊视频檙e seeing is more and more decisions being made by people who are more distant now from the consequences,91裸聊视频� he said.

91裸聊视频淭hey are also increasingly risk-averse,91裸聊视频� he says of large organizations such as Northern Health preferring mass-produced processed-food.

Locally-sourced food through local growers and suppliers throughout the region, however, would add to food freshness, quality and healthier options, Bowering adds.

He does acknowledge the challenges of providing food through the wide variety of Northern Health91裸聊视频檚 facilities located across a large swath of the province.

However, he says it91裸聊视频檚 not impossible 91裸聊视频� on Haida Gwaii, Northern Health patients are offered fresh-caught fish.

91裸聊视频淲hat91裸聊视频檚 needed is a long-term vision,91裸聊视频� says Bowering of an effort to marry local food with that provided by large corporations.

In response, Northern Health91裸聊视频檚 Eryn Collins says that when the authority91裸聊视频檚 executives do meet in its various facilities, their food is catered directly from the kitchens at those facilities.

91裸聊视频淪o they are eating what91裸聊视频檚 on the menu,91裸聊视频� she says.

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Collins describes health care facility food services as complex and challenging in that patient meals can depend upon individual dietary requirements tied to their individual medical conditions.

91裸聊视频淎t Mills Memorial Hospital [in Terrace], for instance, meals are prepared from scratch in their kitchens,91裸聊视频� says Collins.

91裸聊视频淭here are a variety of items prepared for each meal,91裸聊视频� she says in adding Northern Health does use food that91裸聊视频檚 been frozen.

And while Northern Health does strive to meet a provincially-mandated target that 30 per cent of the food prepared is sourced locally, Collins says the definition of 91裸聊视频榣ocal91裸聊视频� can be interpreted as food from within B.C.

91裸聊视频淲e do have challenges due to the size of the region,91裸聊视频� she notes.

Still, most recent reports indicate Northern Health91裸聊视频檚 food is now 19 per cent local, up from a previous level of 16 per cent.

91裸聊视频淲e continue to look at ways to improve within the challenges and constraints we have,91裸聊视频� says Collins.

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