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Here you will find guidance, resources, tools, and ways to engage with your peers and other stakeholders across the value chain to support your food journey and help achieve your organization’s priorities and goals.
The way our food is produced, processed, transported, consumed, and disposed of has profound impacts on individual, community, and planetary health. Hospitals and health systems across the country are achieving their organizational priorities by focusing on food-related initiatives.
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Core values for a better food system
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When launching its sustainability program, Dignity Health established an environmental policy to provide clear direction about the purpose and procedures of their Environmental Action Committee and hospital and staff responsibilities.
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In an effort to protect personnel and the environment, it is the policy of NYU Langone Medical Center to eliminate the use of mercury-containing products and equipment where safe, effective alternatives exist. The mercury elimination program requires that where no acceptable substitute is available, products containing mercury will be clearly labeled, inventoried, safely handled and properly disposed of with the goal of phasing out all remaining mercury-containing materials as new alternatives are identified.
View this resource to read the full mercury policy from NYU Langone Medical… Read More
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Listen to all the ways policy advocacy plays a role in advancing your sustainability efforts. Learn to navigate government levels to drive broader change and highlight your unique accomplishments. Hear firsthand from U.S. Health Care Climate Council members Providence and Boston Medical Center about their experience in climate and sustainability-oriented policy advocacy and discover how to engage internal teams like communications and government affairs on sustainability policy opportunities. This session will give you actionable insights into how to engage in policy work, no matter where you… Read More
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While Advocate has a robust antimicrobial stewardship program for prescribing practices, the organization continues to purchase meat, poultry, seafood and dairy products that are produced with large amounts of non-therapeutic antibiotics. Their goal is to adopt a system-wide food procurement policy that includes the preferential purchasing of meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products produced without the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics.
Type: Resources
Practice Greenhealth created this sample environmentally preferred purchasing policy for member hospitals and clinics to adapt and adopt.
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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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The University of California System’s formal policy establishes the program parameters, areas of focus, key normalizers, and standards for sustainability programmatic priorities across the campuses.
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Inova Health System’s sustainability and wellness policy establishes the program’s parameters that integrate sustainability and wellness programs under one structure. Consider creating a formal plan with your team.
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The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for removing mercury‐containing equipment where safe, effective, mercury‐ free alternatives exist and ensuring the safe handling of remaining mercury‐containing chemicals and equipment.
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable healthcare 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 healthcare value chain.