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ABOUT CATHERINE

Healthy how-to’s for a challenging world

The Caregivers Table is a food-based, teaching and cooking program for bedside healthcare practitioners–- the people who take care of us all. The ones whose jobs don’t coincide with lunchtime self-care programs, or whose own meals are gobbled on the fly, or eaten alone, or come from a vending machine, or don’t happen at all.

We offer consultations

Custom-tailored educational programs for institutions, departments or wards– everything from 15-minute in-service breaks to conference presentations and day-long workshops.

PROGRAMS

Our programs are anchored in practicality and dolloped with science, nourishment, and fun. We bring practical nutrition and flavorful cooking solutions to caregivers, the how-to-make-it-work in their challenging worlds. The results of our programs? Relief, refreshment, and solid information to improve staff lives. Care for the caregivers.

I’ve been there.

Before I became a chef, nutritionist and culinary educator, I was that caregiver. I was a Respiratory Therapist in urban trauma centers and understand the physical, mental, and emotional fortitude required to work long hours at the bedside. I get what it means to work short staffed, to think on your feet, to turn on a dime in dynamic and demanding circumstances. I’m very familiar with the downstairs dash, only to find a “closed” sign on the cafeteria door, and the frustrations over limited access to energy-sustaining food choices on the night shift. My mission is to offer practical ideas, easy recipes, and useful solutions that answer the realities of being a caregiver in today’s healthcare environment.

Flavor. Nourishment. Sustainability. Care.

Catherine

Let’s bring The Caregiver’s Tables’ nourishing programs to your staff.

Founder 

About Catherine

Catherine McConkie, NC is the founder of The Caregivers Table; a Natural Chef Instructor and Nutrition Consultant; Executive Chef for Center for Mind Body Medicine’s Food As Medicine professional nutrition training program; Chef Faculty for Center for Mind Body Medicine’s partnership with Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, IN; Core faculty for the Healing Kitchens Institute at Commonweal Research Institute in Bolinas, CA; co- creator of Diabetes in Motion at San Francisco General Hospital and lead Chef Instructor at San Francisco General Hospital’s Wellness Center.