St. Vincent's Joins Partnership To Share Food With Communities In Need

Bridgeport CT

08 April, 2022

12:26 PM

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The program, WasteNot, aims to reduce waste and find ways to put unused food to good use. The program is being implemented by Compass One, which oversees food services across Hartford HealthCare. The program started at the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain. St. Vincent's and Compass One are partnering with Connecticut Foodshare for this first-of-its-kind program in Connecticut, which allows a food service department within a hospital to donate food to a local non-profit in need. St. Vincent's provides food for approximately 1,000 people a day including patients, visitors and staff. "With that kind of volume, we usually have some food left at the end of meal services that is still perfectly good for repurposing," said Aaron Perrott, executive chef at St. Vincent's. "The process is very simple but extremely effective in serving our community through food." "This program enables St. Vincent's to enhance its relationship with one of the major food programs in the city serving the neediest and most vulnerable of our sisters and brothers," said Bill Hoey, vice president of mission services for St. Vincent's. "One of the main social determinants of health is food security and this is helping to improve food security for individuals in our community."