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Are you ready to join our champions?
Health care culinary professionals across the country are taking their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor, all powered by plants. The contest runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.
Elevate your hard work and creativity while spotlighting your hospital’s plant-forward commitment to a national audience.
Get inspiration from the latest winner Chef Michael J. Millben from Mayo Clinic, and explore the 100+ plant-forward recipes from previous Health Care Culinary Contest participants in our new database.
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Are you ready to join our champions?
Health care culinary professionals across the country are taking their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor, all powered by plants. This year’s contest is streamlined for easier participation.
The contest runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.
Elevate your hard work and creativity while spotlighting your hospital’s plant-forward commitment to a national audience.
Get inspiration from the latest winner Chef Joseph Moreno from Stanford Health Care, and find out which contest winner went on to serve plant-based eats at the White House.
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Want to take your menus to new levels in creativity and flavor?
Since 2017, health care culinary professionals across the country have taken their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor through our Health Care Culinary Contest. Now, we’ve developed a database of over 100 plant-forward recipes for hospital chefs by hospital chefs so you can recreate them.
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Calling all health professional students, are you ready to jumpstart your career in sustainable health care? CleanMed is the premier national conference for leaders in health care sustainability – both current and future.
Welcoming the next generation of sustainability leaders
We are eager to support the next generation of doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, supply chain experts, and public health professionals as you advance climate-smart health care and lead the way toward a sustainable future.
Meet the people you want to become – Our network represents 1,400 hospitals and health… Read More
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Health care culinary professionals across the country are taking their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor, all powered by plants.
Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth teamed up with Menus of Change, an initiative of The Culinary Institute of America and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to host another Health Care Culinary Contest.
This year’s contest is streamlined for easier participation and will run from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30.
Encourage your chef and culinary professionals to participate. Your facility could be home to the next America's top hospital… Read More
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Catch the latest episode of Fierce Healthcare: Podnosis, featuring two of our experts, Dr. Ted Schettler and Dr. Emily Sbiroli. They dive into the plastics crisis and how it’s impacting health care, and explore potential solutions and share real-world examples of innovations in the health sector to address this issue.
"There are many opportunities in health care for getting rid of single-use plastics that wouldn't have any impact on patient care"
– Dr. Ted Schettler
Dr. Schettler, one of our science advisers, brings decades of experience to the table, while Dr. Sbiroli, recognized as… Read More
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The 2019 Health Care Culinary Contest challenged hospital chefs to create and serve a tantalizing new meal that celebrated the power of plants. Hospital chefs from across the country answered the call.
Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth teamed up with Menus of Change, an initiative of The Culinary Institute of America and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to host the contest.
Health Care Without Harm planned to announce the results and celebrate the winner of the in May at CleanMed 2020. Due to COVID-19, we made the decision to cancel CleanMed and to postpone the… Read More
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By Mark Sanchez
Business Review West Michigan
Accounting for 18 percent of the GDP in America and holding enormous purchasing power, health care is in a position to drive sustainability to new heights, Gary Cohen believes.
From energy consumption to the use of chemicals and safer products, health care “can have a society-wide transformational power,” said Cohen, founder and co-executive director of Health Care Without Harm, a group that advocates for environmental responsibility in health care.
“It’s the one sector in society that has the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, and, as it begins to… Read More
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May 9, 2019
Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth honor environmental health heroes
Every year Health Care Without Harm honors an individual with the Environmental Health Hero award. This year, the nonprofit organization didn’t stop at one person. They’re recognizing the entire staffs at three California hospitals who went above and beyond to care for their communities during extreme weather events from wildfires to heat waves.
Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center made sure vulnerable members of community received attention and care during record-… Read More
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By Hermine Levey Weston, RN MBA, Member Engagement Manager, Practice Greenhealth
Part two of a two-part blog series begun last week.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement frames quality as striving to meet the Triple Aim: population health, per capita cost and experience of care. Making the connection to Population Health involves using healthier food systems to prevent obesity and cancer and minimizing endocrine disruption by decreasing chemicals of concern in buildings. Increased incidence of vector-borne illnesses is correlated to climate change so mitigating climate change by… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth is the health care sector’s go-to source for information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on sustainability initiatives that help hospitals and health systems meet their health, financial, and community goals.
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 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.