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Build a strong base for your food efforts through progressive policies and plans, engaged and empowered teams, transformative community collaboration, and supportive public policy and programs.
Health care institutions have an opportunity to influence broad food system impacts for their patients, staff, and communities – but to realize this potential it is important to first set the foundation.
Establishing progressive goals – based on a thorough assessment of current activities and designed with leadership, staff, and community input – will set your facility on the road to success. By… Read More
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Hospital food service often mirrors general societal food consumption patterns. However, the health mission and large purchasing power of hospitals make them excellent models and drivers for healthier food environments and systems. There is an emerging understanding that the “health” of a food choice is a combination of the nutritional benefits is provides, and the way in which that food was produced, transported and prepared.
Type: Resources
(Health Care Without Harm) This guidance brief provides an overview of the reporting categories on IRS Form 990 Schedule H, as well as some guidelines and “rules of thumb” for how to report community benefit support for a set of healthy food access initiatives discussed throughout this playbook.
These programs can be an effective component of community benefit implementation strategies to address priority community health needs including obesity, food insecurity, healthy food access, poor nutrition, and diet-related health conditions.
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Find out more about the Cool Food Pledge in a free, 30-minute information session.
Tuesday, February 22 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT)
Over 40 Practice Greenhealth partners have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions from food through plant-forward action. Learn what it takes to become a pledge signatory and give diners more of what they want while slashing food-related emissions, saving costs, and improving health. Join health care leaders in the growing movement to tackle the climate impact of food, and hear stories from hospitals and health systems already seeing results… Read More
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Hospitals are increasingly seeking opportunities to purchase food from local and diverse farmers and food businesses in order to align their food service operations with their mission to serve and support the health of their communities. This webinar will introduce you to Practice Greenhealth’s local and equitable food purchasing guidance and resources. Hackensack Meridian Health will share how they applied our guidance and the resulting impacts experienced by their community collaborator The CommonMarket.
Type: Event
Hillary Greenwood, National Procurement Director, Health Care Without Harm, Healthy Food in Health Care Program
2016 was a momentous year for addressing routine antibiotic use and animal welfare in broiler chicken production. While many commitments were made in 2015 and earlier, 2016 was the year when retail, fast food, and food management sectors manifested these promises in a variety of ways. Restaurants have made particularly good progress in sourcing the chicken they serve from farmers who do not use antibiotics. By 2017, all chicken sold at Chipotle, McDonald’s, Panera Bread, and Subway… Read More
Type: Press
Our waste tracker tool will help you to conduct a baseline audit and track progress going forward. Utilizing this tool, you will be able to track your food waste streams, determine the monetary value of what is wasted, and identify opportunities for reducing waste.
Type: Resources
A novel committee puts people experiencing food insecurity and professionals working to address food access on equal ground leading to innovative solutions.
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(Health Care Without Harm) This brief provides an overview of secondary data sources to assess food access, food environments, and diet-related health needs commonly used in community health needs assessments (CHNAs), along with some less frequently utilized sources that may complement widely used measures.
The brief also discusses recommendations for collecting primary data on food-related health issues in low-income communities in order to better understand facilitators and obstacles to healthy eating and to develop targeted and effective implementation strategies.
Together with the… Read More
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Hospitals are increasingly seeking opportunities to purchase environmentally sustainable and high animal welfare foods to align their food service operations with their mission to serve and support the health of their communities and the environment. This webinar will introduce you to Practice Greenhealth’s sustainable food purchasing guidance and resources. Stanford Health will share how they have applied our guidance to reduce environmental impact, and their community collaborators, TomKat Ranch, Richards Regenerative, and Shared Plate Strategies, will share tips and impacts of their… Read More
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