Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, December 4, 1994 TAG: 9412050058
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The service not only involves food for patients on varying diets, but for the hospital cafeteria, said Stephen Bailey, Marriott district manager.
His district has three Virginia hospitals and nine in North Carolina. The other Virginia account is Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County.
Sandy Brunner, food service manager in Pulaski for the past three years, said its outside business has risen by about $55,000 since 1991, when it did $4,000 in catering business. This year, it expects to do $62,000 in such business.
``Sandy does a lot of catering for the community,'' Bailey said.
In January, Brunner will be dividing her time between Pulaski Community and Montgomery Regional. The food service staff of about 20 at Montgomery will remain the same. ``I'll be the only Marriott employee over there,'' she said.
Marriott employs 23 people at Pulaski.
Patty Davis, who had been dietary manager at Pulaski, has moved to Montgomery to get everything set up there for the transition at the end of the year. Mel Wade is now dietary manager at Pulaski.
Jill Riplett, dietitian at Pulaski for the past eight months, works with physicians on diets for patients with different needs. She also does dietary counseling with patients who have diseases like diabetes that require strict diet regimens.
Appalachian Power Co. Division Manager Robert Kilgore said Marriott was one of the catering services in the New River VaLLey that provided meals for Apco workers brought in from other areas to help restore power after last winter's ice storms. One Tennessee worker, pleased with the food the hospital provided, told him "I ain't never got nothing but hot dogs up to this time."
by CNB