Archive for August, 2009
The Business of School Lunch
August 28th, 2009 | post a comment
On this week’s Business Matters, we bring you a whole show on ways that we can improve our school lunch programs. We’ll find out if it’s possible to serve healthy, natural and affordable lunches to children in an institutional setting, and give you tips on how you can get your local school district to adopt more healthy and sustainable practices.
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Part 1: Helene York Director, Bon Appetit Foundation | Download MP3
Helene York is director of the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation, an educational organization whose mission is to educate consumers, chefs, and food service managers about how their food choices affect the environment and the livelihoods of traditional food producers. The foundation was formed in 2005 to help identify sustainable food supply practices, opportunities and to help implement them.
Bon Appétit Management Company, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, provides on-site restaurant services at private colleges, universities, corporations and cultural venues in 28 states. In existence for 20 years, it is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Compass Group, the largest food service provider in the U.S. and worldwide with global headquarters in Great Britain. Bon Appétit is known for pioneering environmentally and socially responsible practices and then sharing operational know-how to sister companies within Compass Group and the food service industry at-large.
Part 2: Chef Bobo Executive Chef, Calhoun School | Download MP3
Chef Bobo (aka Robert Surles), a graduate of the French Culinary Institute is currently Executive Chef and Food Service Director for the Calhoun School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where he is spearheading a revolution in what kids eat for lunch. He is cooking natural and healthy food that features bold flavors and good nutrition as the cornerstone of his menu plan. Everything is made from scratch with the freshest of ingredients.
Prior to taking the position at the Calhoun School, Chef Bobo, whose nickname is a derivative of Bob, worked for almost two years as an Assistant Chef Instructor at the French Culinary Institute. He is the Chef/Owner of Chef Bobo Catering Co, which he started in 1988. His goal is to develop young palates toward understanding good food so that eating well becomes a lifelong skill. Many of his flavorful and nutritious recipes can be found in his book, Chef Bobo’s Good Food Cookbook. (Meredith Books)
Part 3: Bob Bloomer Regional VP, Chartwells Thompson Hospitality | Download MP3
Bob Bloomer manages Chartwells Thompson’s contract with Chicago Public Schools. In 2005, they became the first single vendor for Chicago Public Schools’ food services, after running several of CPS’s 6 regions since 2000. Chartwells, a division of Charlotte-based Compass Group, provides dining services for over 875 colleges, universities, public and private schools around the Country.
Part 4: Amy Audiffred Director of Operations, Bon Appetit Management at Wheaton College & Marco Hetterich Executive Chef at Wheaton College | Download MP3
Bon Appetit Management Company handle the food service contract for Wheaton Colleges, and have been so successful that they were ranked #1 for best campus food from the Princeton Review last year. Producer Jonah Meadows visited Wheaton College to hear how they’ve been able to do it.
(This episode of Business Matters was originally broadcast February 13, 2009)
Fear and the Health Care Debate
August 21st, 2009 | post a comment
This week on Business Matters we’re examining the relationship between fear, the media, and public opinion about health care reform. We’ll look at what’s behind some of the increasingly extreme anti-Obama and anti-health care reform rhetoric. Also, we’ll explore fear has been employed to defeat reform and how can supporters of President Obama counter the fears that have been raised?
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Lester Spence, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University; Author of the forthcoming, Stare in the Darkness: Rap, Hip-hop, and Black Politics
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Lester Spence is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in racial politics, black politics, public opinion, and urban politics and how what we watch and listen to, as well as who we watch and listen to influence our ideas about politics, and our public policy preferences. His upcoming book, “Stare in the Darkness: Rap, Hip-hop, and Black Politics” examines how rap not only influences youth attitudes, but also how it reflects and at the same time creates black politics. His work has been published in The Washington Post, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, Africana.com and Salon.com, as well as academic journals such as The American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Analysis, the WEB Dubois Review, and the National Political Science Review. You can also check out his blog at blacksmythe.com/blog/
Joseph Cappella, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; Author of Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the conservative media establishment
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Joseph N. Cappella is Professor of Communication and holds the Gerald R. Miller Chair at the Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University and a visiting scholar at Stanford. His research has resulted in more than 100 articles and book chapters and three co-authored books in areas of health and political communication, social interaction, nonverbal behavior, media effects, and statistical methods. The articles have appeared in journals in psychology, communication, health, and politics.
David Altheide, Regents’ Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University; Author of Terrorism and the Politics of Fear
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David Altheide, PhD, is Regents’ Professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where he has taught for 34 years. His research focuses on how mass media and information technology have powerful roles in social control. His recent work focuses on how news reports about “fear” have evolved over time. Along with his students, he’s been investigating how the language of law enforcement and the military has infused popular culture. He’s identified the critical elements of successful media messages, and how critical consumers of information can better understand “media logic.”
(A longer version of this conversation was originally broadcast in November, 2008.)
The Business of Health Care Pt. 3
August 14th, 2009 | post a comment
As increasing health care costs and a growing number of uninsured Americans puts financial pressure on both individuals and businesses, we’ll return to our ongoing look at the landscape of health care reform. We’ll bring you three different perspectives on the current debate raging across the country during the August Congressional recess. First, we look for ways that the proposed health care bills address preventative care. Then, we’ll compare the Canadian health care system to the current U.S. system with a Canadian doctor and health policy consultant and later, we’ll discuss ways that increasing competition can lower everyone’s health care costs.
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Rich Hamburg, Director of Government Relations, Trust for America’s Health
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Rich Hamburg is the Director of Government Relations for Trust for America’s Health, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to making disease prevention a national priority. He is responsible for strategizing and implementing TFAH’s coalition building and legislative efforts at the federal and state levels. Prior to TFAH, Mr. Hamburg had a number of roles with the American Heart Association (AHA), most recently, as the Director of Government Relations. He also is a past Director of Government Affairs at AHA’s New York City affiliate. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hamburg was Staff Director to Assemblyman Denis J. Butler in the New York State Assembly, where he was responsible for drafting and implementing legislation.
Dr. Michael Rachlis, Health Policy Consultant and Physician in Toronto
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Dr. Rachlis practices as a private consultant in health policy analysis. He has consulted to the federal government, all ten provincial governments, and two royal commissions. He also holds associate professor appointments with the University of Toronto and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Dr. Rachlis has lectured widely on health care issues and been invited to make presentations to committees of the Canadian House of Commons and the Canadian Senate as well as the United States House of Representatives and Senate. He’s also the author of three national bestsellers about Canada’s health care system, most recently, Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada’s Health Care System.
Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Author, Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It
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Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on health care reform, social welfare policy, and Social Security. His most recent book, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution, chronicles the demise of the Republican party as it has shifted away from its limited government roots. Before joining Cato in 1993, Tanner served as director of research of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and as legislative director for the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The Business of Health Care
August 7th, 2009 | 1 comment
As increasing health care costs and a growing number of uninsured Americans puts financial pressure on both individuals and businesses, we’ll return to our ongoing look at the landscape of health care reform. As the Congress has entered their August recess without yet passing a bill to address health care, we’ll look for ways that walk-in clinics and primary health care providers can help solve the nation’s health care crisis on this week’s Business Matters.
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Part 1: Sandy Ryan, Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer , Take Care Clinic | Download MP3
Take Care Health Systems is a part of Walgreens Health and Wellness division, and it includes both “Take Care Consumer Solutions”, at some Walgreens drug stores and “Take Care Employer Solutions,” which handles work-based health services. Take Care Health is expanding access to care to the medically underservered, s it attempts to provide access to high-quality, affordable and convenient health care to all individuals able to visit a Walgreens drug store. Currently, there are more than 250 Take Care Clinics around the country, each of which is managed by Take Care Health Services, while Take Care Employer Solutions manages primary care and occupational health centers at over 360 different workplaces in the United States.
Part 2: Kelly Carter, COO, Illinois Primary Health Care Association | Download MP3
Kelly Carter is the Chief Operating Officer of the Illinois Primary Health Care Association (IPHCA,) a nonprofit trade association that serves as Illinois’ sole primary care association and a member of the National Association of Community Health Centers. IPHCA represents the community health centers (CHCs) that were created by Congress in the 1960’s to provide health care to under-served communities and high-risk patients, regardless of their ability to pay.
The IPHCA is taking part in the Access for All Americans plan to raise–from 18 to 30 million–the number of Americans served by community health centers. As this plan, the IPHCA launched Access Illinois, which aims to provide a medical home to 2.1 million Illinoisans by the year 2015.
Part 3: Jay Parkinson, MD, Doctor, Hello Health | Download MP3
Jay Parkinson is a doctor at Hello Health, a clinic in New York City that’s using information technology to increase doctor-patient contact and provide affordable health care and medical services to more patients on a flexible schedule. For example, Hello Health uses e-mail, instant messaging and video chat to handle simple questions and follow-ups and allow patients to maintain a relationship with a team of doctors.
(This program was originally broadcast on February 20, 2009)
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