Sodexho Marriott creates senior services unit.Sodexho Marriott Services health care division will segment its long term care business into a distinct operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon called "senior services." Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Sodexho Marriott has more than 250 clients in the senior services market. "By separating nursing and retirement homes from the hospital business and putting a focused staff of managers, sales and marketing people at the helm of the senior services business, we should both speed growth and better serve clients." Sodexho Marriott offers such outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. solutions as food services food services Hospital services A 24/7 department in a hospital that provides for the nutritional needs of inpatients–eg, those needing special diets, preparing meals and transporting them to the floor and, through the cafeteria, the hospital staff and , housekeeping, grounds keeping, laundry, plant operations and maintenance, and materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, . |
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