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Improve patient outcomes and reduce the prevalence and expense of diet-related diseases in your community by increasing and improving healthy food access and connecting patients to nutrition programs.
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Build healthier food environments for your patrons through education, promotion, and marketing of healthy foods and beverages at your facility.
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Use this change-management approach to make the case for prioritizing food-related initiatives.
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.
We started out as the result of a first-of-its kind agreement between a health care association and a federal agency with shared goals for environmental stewardship and sustainability in health care.
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Build healthier food environments for your patrons through education, promotion, and marketing of healthy foods and beverages at your facility.
Healthy food environments include the food itself – whole or minimally-processed – as well as community culture. Hospitals can promote community health by offering culturally-relevant, nourishing food that honors communities’ food traditions and protects against food-related chronic disease.
As promoters and protectors of community health, hospitals can use procurement and related strategies to foster healthy and resilient communities.
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Plant-Forward Future We teamed up with chefs Jessica Wright, director of healthy food in institutions for Nourish Colorado, and Andre Uribe, founder of Sustainable Meals Oregon, to create recipes and film demo videos for eight mouthwatering, plant-forward dishes.
From spicy tempeh chorizo to Thai hazelnut soba noodles and soy curls to green chickpea guacamole, each dish builds on locally available plant proteins – including some of the innovative products we developed with health care systems, and local producers and food processors for our regional plant-based protein project.
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Composting landscape and food waste is a viable waste reduction strategy for many hospital and health systems. Long-term benefits of compost programs for hospitals might include:
Reduces incineration or landfill disposal costs for dense and heavy landscape and food scraps
Avoids costly extra water discharges from wastewater treatment due to food waste sludge created by industrial food disposal systems.
Saves landscaping budget by increasing water retention, aeration, and soil nutrients, which reduces mulch, fertilizers, and pesticide purchases.
Unneeded compost can potentially be sold or… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.