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WEBINAR Mar 24: Nutritious & Delicious

Webinar

Nourish

Community Well-Being

Health Care Innovation

Sustainable Food and Menus

As part of our spring recruitment for the Nourish Commons, Nourish is offering free live access to the webinar on Mar 24, 2026 for everyone in our network. Commons Members will have access to the webinar recording.

Webinar Overview:
Across Canada, we’re seeing the same challenges again and again: hospital-based malnutrition, unhealthy eating patterns, food insecurity, and a growing burden of food-related chronic disease. All while we know that food can be a powerful intervention for health and well-being.

This session will explore how to close this value–action gap. Delicious nutrition is one of the five pillars of 100 Million Better Bites, Nourish’s strategic goal by 2030.

Join Jen Reynolds, Nourish Co-ED for a fireside chat with restaurateur Stephen Beckta exploring the recent menu transformation at The Ottawa Hospital and what we can do together—now—through collective learning and action to shift stuck patterns and leverage delicious meals for the health of people and the planet.

In preparation for the webinar, we invite you to watch the Food as medicine: reimagining the hospital mealtime experience (8 minute video) about the food service innovation underway at the Ottawa Hospital, so we can dive deeper into the conversation together.

This webinar is a free preview of the types of conversations members can look forward to in the Nourish Commons which opens in March 2026.

Date: Tuesday March 24, 2026 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET

Register here

Speaker

  • Stephen Beckta

    Stephen Beckta is the President of the Beckta Restaurant Group, which includes Beckta, one of Canada’s premier fine dining restaurants, along with the critically acclaimed, upscale neighbourhood restaurant Gezellig, and Curated By Beckta, which offers custom-curated wine packages alongside fine dining meal kits and in-home catering.

    Most recently, Stephen was hired by The Ottawa Hospital to develop an innovative food service program to enhance patient nutrition and experience, while positively impacting recovery times.

    Their 2025 trial at the General Campus won the Ontario Cancer Innovation award, and they plan to complete the transformation for the entire hospital in 2026, while finalizing the food service design for the new campus at Dow’s Lake, opening in the coming years.