As a recognized power in distributing products and services to the healthcare industry, SYSCO of Kansas City stocks a wide variety of certain items specific to healthcare providers, including both acute and long-term care facilities. Our Modified Foods Listing of food thickeners, thickened beverages, pureed products, supplements, plus sugar-free, fat-free, low-fat and low-sodium alternatives, is available to help in your product selection. In addition to our broad selection of stocked healthcare items, our customers have access to specialty healthcare products through Med-Diet. These products can be ordered and billed through SYSCO, but shipped direct from Med-Diet.

As part of our partnership program with our healthcare customers, SYSCO of Kansas City offers numerous services designed to help you provide quality service while controlling "the bottom line." For further information on any of these programs contact your SYSCO Healthcare Specialist or Marketing Associate, or contact Carolyn Campbell, RD/LD, Assistant Director of Healthcare Services at 1-800-927-3123, ext. 365. These services include:

• Menu Programs
- We have menus from C.L. Gerwick, Health Technologies, and the SYSCO Corporation Impac menus. Menus for long-term care, assisted living, and small hospital are available either as standard sets or customized menus.

• Recipe Programs
- SYSCO’s ProPrint recipe production program is an easy-to-use software program that provides precisely scaled recipes on demand utilizing an extensive database. The system allows an individual operator to print recipes locally scaled to exact menu requirements as needed. Therapeutic versions are available for a majority of the recipes.

SYSCO’s NetRecipe is an interactive Internet based program that precisely scales recipes on demand utilizing the same extensive database as ProPrint. The program also provides full nutritional data for each recipe and will perform nutritional analysis based on recipes in the system.

• Financial Management Services
- SYSCO of Kansas City offers numerous services designed to help you control food costs.
• Prime Vendor Purchasing Programs
• Computer-Generated Tracking Reports
- One of the most valuable reports is our Descending Dollar Report, which show you in descending dollar amounts where your food and supply dollars are spent monthly.
• Monthly Marketing Reports
• Simplified Accounts Payable
• Cost Effective Product Selection

• Traycard Software
- SYSCO’s TRAY SYS is designed to manage resident data of long term care facilities with the goals to improve operational efficiency and enhance resident quality of life. The easy to read, disposable traycards improve accuracy of foods served, while eliminating the tasks of cleaning and sorting plastic cards. Nourishment labels, and weight tracking reports and graphs are also components of the program.

• Free Video Library
- SYSCO of Kansas City has an extensive video library which enable our customers to do in-site training at their convenience. Training folders are available for some videos for a nominal fee. (view library - pdf)

• Menu Automation Express
- Ingenium MAX is a fully integrated comprehensive software solution that MAXimizes healthcare food services resources. In partnership with Momentus Health Information Systems, SYSCO commits to support our valued loyal customers as they confront the challenges of the ever-changing healthcare environment. This Windows Based Software Solution consists of five modules that include: Resident Care Plans, Menus, Production, Assessment, and Costing. The program is resident driven and once resident profiles are entered, serving, production and ordering requirements are automatically updated. MAXimize the control and flexibility of your operation by utilizing these state-of-the-art software.

• ServSafe
- As a sponsor of the Industry Council on Food Safety, SYSCO Corporation is committed to food safety through training and education. The ServSafe program was developed by The Education Foundation of the National Restaurant Association, and is recognized as the industry leader in quality training. SYSCO of Kansas City periodically offers ServSafe Certification classes at our Olathe office, as well as other locations. Special discounts are available for SYSCO customers.

• Education Interface
- The Future of your business is your staff, so why not take advantage of SYSCO’s Education Interface, a web-based, interactive, turnkey training solution. This is a highly interactive, bilingual, training program which employees complete at their own pace, but as managers, you are able to monitor. Preferred pricing for SYSCO customers.

• Education Excellence
- Your purchase of SYSCO Supreme Fruit products can help you reduce the expenses your operation incurs for attending seminars or continuing education courses. From the date of your registration, SYSCO Corporation will set aside $.50 for each case of SYSCO Supreme Fruit you purchase. Upon receipt of your claim for expenses incurred, SYSCO will release these funds to your operation.

• Employee Spotlight
- The SYSCO of Kansas City Healthcare support staff will be recognized by an employee spotlight every quarter. This quarter our employee spotlight is on Gale Williamson.