UnitedHealthcare Turns Cafeteria Into Meal-Prep Base For Greensboro Residents in Need
April 06 2020 - 6:24PM
Business Wire
Partnership between UnitedHealthcare, Compass
Group and eight local nonprofits is helping fill a surging need
Many Greensboro families will have access to free, healthy
meals, as UnitedHealthcare of North Carolina reallocates its campus
cafeteria staff to provide 6,000 meals each week, at least for the
next seven weeks. The effort comes as nonprofits report massive
increases in the number of families needing help in accessing
food.
Leaders of UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of
UnitedHealthcare, devised the plan to help Compass Group food
service workers get back to work in recently closed office
cafeterias in several U.S. cities including Minneapolis and Las
Vegas. The UnitedHealthcare Greensboro campus cafeteria will be
among those preparing hot and cold meals to be distributed
throughout Guilford County, which had one of the highest levels of
food insecurity in the nation before the coronavirus crisis.
“During this unprecedented public health emergency, access to
healthy meals will increasingly become a challenge for many North
Carolinians,” said Anita Bachmann, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community
Health Plan of North Carolina. “We are honored to be able to
reallocate space and resources to contribute to help the needs of
North Carolinians and ensure individuals can remain employed during
this difficult time.”
UnitedHealthcare is working with eight community partners to
distribute meals and ensure Guilford County residents are fed.
Those organizations include Greensboro Urban Ministry, One Step
Further, Christ United Methodist Church and Family Service of the
Piedmont; as well as Senior Resources of Guilford, YWCA Family
Shelter, Greensboro Housing Authority and Hope Academy.
“UnitedHealthcare is the first company to come forward and
generously provide enough meals to serve the guests of Potter’s
House community kitchen in this capacity,” said Chris Ringuette of
Greensboro Urban Ministry which runs the community kitchen. “This
donation helps to ease the strain Greensboro Urban Ministry has
felt from the increased level of community need due to the
pandemic.”
Meals are being prepared by 10 Compass Group employees, who
normally cook for, and serve, UnitedHealth Group employees, most of
whom are now working from home.
The healthy menu options change daily as directed by Compass
Group’s chef Amanda Boan and will include meals such as chicken
parmesan, seasoned rice and steamed carrots, and boxed lunches that
include an assortment of sandwiches, fresh fruit, chips and
water.
UnitedHealth Group is covering the nearly $250,000 in food costs
and wages for the Compass Group employees in Greensboro. This
outreach builds on UnitedHealth Group’s recently announced $50
million initial commitment to support communities affected by
COVID-19.
About UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) is a diversified health care
company dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and
helping to make the health system work better for everyone.
UnitedHealth Group offers a broad spectrum of products and services
through two distinct platforms: UnitedHealthcare, which provides
health care coverage and benefits services; and Optum, which
provides information and technology-enabled health services. For
more information, visit UnitedHealth Group at
www.unitedhealthgroup.com or follow @UnitedHealthGrp on
Twitter.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier
lives and making the health system work better for everyone by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full
spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and
Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
over 1.3 million physicians and care professionals, and more than
6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The company
also provides health benefits and delivers care to people through
owned and operated health care facilities in South America.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group
(NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more
information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC
on Twitter.
About Eurest USA
Eurest is a $1.75 billion food and vending organization serving
the business and industry market with over 2,000 locations and more
than 18,000 associates throughout the United States. Eurest serves
more than 850,000 guests daily and is a sector of North
Carolina-based Compass Group North America. Compass Group North
America is the leading foodservice management and support services
company with $18.6 billion USD in revenue in 2018. Compass Group
North America is owned by Compass Group PLC based in the United
Kingdom, operating in 45 countries with 600,000 associates
worldwide. For more information, visit eurest-usa.com.
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