Recommendations and resources for healthy food access program assessment
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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.
Understanding the community food environment and landscape of community food resources is an essential component of any community health needs assessment (CHNA) and health improvement planning process.
This digest provides resources for purchasing sustainable products. Use the resources to identify environmental considerations for products and services, where to obtain more information, and the rationale for purchasing sustainably.
The suggested environmental disclosure questions may be used in your RFI/RFP to help inform your purchasing decisions.
Published: December 13, 2018
For hospitals in our network, it’s Food Day every day.
This vetted list of criteria meets the definition of sustainable eggs for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.
This vetted list of criteria and third-party certifications meets the definition of sustainable meat and poultry for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth.
In only 18 months, Hackensack University Medical Center now leads the country in achieving a 98 percent benchmark of meat and poultry raised without routine antibiotics.
[Plant-Forward Future] Entrée recipes submitted by health care facilities across the country to assist you in providing nutritious, delicious meals to your patients, visitors, and staff as you strive to reduce your meat and poultry purchases, and invest the cost savings in sustainable meat options.
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