{"id":11194,"date":"2025-06-16T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=11194"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:08:17","slug":"get-ready-for-aspen-malnutrition-awareness-week-2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/news\/get-ready-for-aspen-malnutrition-awareness-week-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for ASPEN Malnutrition Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Malnutrition Awareness Week<sup>TM <\/sup>is an annual campaign organized by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) to provide healthcare professionals with tools for identifying and treating malnutrition in their patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malnourished patients have longer hospital stays, twice the need for rehab or long-term care, and a 2.3 times higher rate of hospital deaths. In addition to its human toll, malnutrition raises hospital costs by 73% and can cost an additional $10,000 in hospital readmission stays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malnutrition Awareness Week, held from September 8&ndash;12, 2025, will offer live webinars and various complimentary resources addressing malnutrition in both adult and pediatric patients. Each webinar provides 1&ndash;1.5 CME credits and is free to ASPEN members and supporting ambassador institutions. The webinars will start at noon ET each day of that week, covering the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>September 8: <strong>The Compounding Effects of Patient Safety Failures: From Error to Malnutrition<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 9: <strong>Malnutrition in Cancer Care: Enhancing Outcomes Through Early Nutrition Intervention and Risk Mitigation<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 10: <strong>Addressing Malnutrition in Adults with Chronic Liver Disease and Transplant: Strategies for Education Success<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 11: <strong>Silent Struggles: Tackling Malnutrition by Overcoming Obstacles in Home Enteral Nutrition in Adults and Pediatrics<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 12: <strong>Talking About the Elephant in the Room: The Ethics of Communicating a Malnutrition Diagnosis in Adults and Pediatrics<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/maw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Malnutrition Awareness Week website<\/a> to register for the webinars, access complimentary malnutrition resources, and learn how your institution can become an MAW ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false},"news":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-11194","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"sub_title":"","publication_date":"06\/16\/2025","type":"ASPEN Update","call_to_action_url":"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/news\/get-ready-for-aspen-malnutrition-awareness-week-2025\/","description_or_image":true,"custom_description_text":" Malnutrition Awareness Week is an annual campaign organized by ASPEN to provide healthcare professionals with tools for identifying and treating malnutrition in their patients. 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