Sodexo Healthcare Donates $650,000 Ready-to-Eat Meals to Sinai Health System and the Greater Chicago Food Depository With The Help of Move For Hunger and Nelson Westerberg - Seite 2

Gregory L. Koehlinger, NEWESCO, INC.’s executive vice president, shared, “As a company founded in Chicago, when we heard about the opportunity from our partners at Move For Hunger to help transport emergency meals to Chicago, we were more than happy to offer our services and give back during this unprecedented time. We want to especially express gratitude to Nelson Westerberg professional van operators: Jeff Olsen, Jim Kennedy, and Tom Allen.”

Community Meal Donation Pick-Up and Census Event
Today, in partnership with Sodexo and the Food Depository, Sinai Health System is hosting an event where local community members are invited to the Sinai Community Institute to pick-up the meals donated by Sodexo. The event will take place Thursday, September 24, 2020 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. Catherine J. Tabaka, CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America and Karen Teitelbaum, President and CEO of Sinai Health System will be in attendance as meals are being distributed to attendees, and The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation will present the $100,000 donation to Food Depository Chicago.

“At Sinai Health System, our mission is to improve the health of the individuals and communities we serve and that means extending our care outside of our hospital walls to provide resources to our local community,” said Karen Teitelbaum, President and CEO of Sinai Health System. “We work every day in Chicago’s most underserved communities to care for people who are disproportionately affected by illness, poverty and other social challenges. Good health for us starts before someone comes to the hospital, it’s proactively ensuring that our communities have the access to resources they need – including healthy food.”

During the event, Sinai Community Institute’s Counting on Chicago Census team will also be on hand providing bilingual assistance and computer stations and tablets to help local community members fill out their 2020 U.S. Census forms.

“Helping our community members complete the census will help to determine which areas qualify for critical resources that children and families depend on. Completion determines funding for our hospitals, supportive housing for the elderly, libraries, community centers, Medicare and Medicaid and school meals, just to name a few,” said Debra Wesley, President of Sinai Community Institute.

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About Sodexo North America
At Sodexo Healthcare we build trusted partnerships with health systems to support their care delivery mission. Leveraging science, insights and imagination, we provide solutions and contribute essential non-clinical services wherever care is delivered, to enhance patients’ and caregivers’ experience while improving our clients’ financial health. Sodexo Healthcare’s 35,000 employees provide human-centered care with food and nutrition, environmental and clinical engineering services that support healthcare teams and overall operations at over 1,500 sites in the United States.