Sodexo and University Hospitals Expand and Extend Their Partnership
11 March 2022 - 12:55AM
Sodexo, a food and facilities management company, announced today
the expansion and extension of Sodexo’s largest integrated services
healthcare client in the U.S., University Hospitals (UH). Sodexo
provides UH with a breadth of services including patient nutrition
and retail food (UH’s cafeterias, Wolfgang Puck’s at UHCMC, and
coffee kiosks such as Einstein’s), facilities and construction
management, and healthcare technology management.
“Sodexo is proud to be a trusted partner to University Hospitals
Health System,” said Stuart Winters, CEO, Healthcare, North
America, Sodexo. “Our organizations’ values are very much aligned
and as a result, we’re able to work seamlessly as a team with the
benefit of patients and staff top of mind.”
“We continue to value our partnership with Sodexo and all
that they offer to University Hospitals Health System,” said Tom
Snowberger, Chief Administrative Officer of UH. “This was a highly
competitive RFP process where Sodexo was not only able to
demonstrate their strengths as a partner but build on them as
well.”
Over the last six years, Sodexo has saved UH approximately $65
million, delivering on the company’s initial promise to create
exceptional financial and operational results. The renewed contract
between Sodexo and UH anticipates an 11-year relationship, during
which Sodexo will employ 180 people across six areas of service. In
the coming years, Sodexo and UH plan to renovate the retail and
cafeteria space at UH Cleveland Medical Center as well as complete
an engineering study of the health system’s acute care
campuses.
About Sodexo North America
Sodexo North America is part of a global, Fortune 500
company with a presence in 56 countries. Sodexo is a leading
provider of integrated food, facilities management and other
services that enhance organizational performance, contribute to
local communities and improve quality of life for millions of
customers in corporate, education, healthcare, senior living,
government, Sodexo Live! and other environments daily. The company
employs 125,000 people at thousands of sites in all 50 U.S. states,
Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam, and indirectly supports tens of
thousands of additional jobs through its annual purchases of $20B
in goods and services from small to large businesses. Sodexo is
committed to supporting diversity, equity, inclusion and safety,
while upholding the highest standards of corporate responsibility
and ethical business conduct. In support of local communities
across the U.S., in 2021, the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation
mobilized more than 11,000 volunteers to distribute 1.8 million
meals to help 2.5 million children and adults meet their immediate
food needs. Since 1996, the Stop Hunger Foundation has contributed
$38 million to help feed children in America impacted by
hunger. To learn more about Sodexo, visit us.sodexo.com,
and connect with us
on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.
About University Hospitals / Cleveland, OhioFounded in 1866,
University Hospitals serves the needs of patients through an
integrated network of 23 hospitals (including 5 joint ventures),
more than 50 health centers and outpatient facilities, and over 200
physician offices in 16 counties throughout northern Ohio. The
system’s flagship quaternary care, academic medical center,
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, is affiliated with
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Northeast Ohio
Medical University, Oxford University and the Technion Israel
Institute of Technology. The main campus also includes the UH
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, ranked among the top
children’s hospitals in the nation; UH MacDonald Women's Hospital,
Ohio's only hospital for women; and UH Seidman Cancer Center, part
of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. UH is home
to some of the most prestigious clinical and research programs in
the nation, with more than 3,000 active clinical trials and
research studies underway. UH Cleveland Medical Center is
perennially among the highest performers in national ranking
surveys, including “America’s Best Hospitals” from U.S. News &
World Report. UH is also home to 19 Clinical Care Delivery and
Research Institutes. UH is one of the largest employers in
Northeast Ohio with more than 30,000 employees. Follow UH on
LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. For more information, visit
UHhospitals.org.
Heidi Bullman
Sodexo
Heidi.Bullman@sodexo.com
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