This health care procurement guide, focused on meat and poultry, helps facilities start purchasing plans that take these critical issues into consideration and overcome barriers to identifying and accessing sustainably raised or grown products.
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There are many strategies a hospital or health system can use to increase the availability of sustainably produced food options via existing supply channels and relationships.
There are many opportunities for hospitals to improve patient safety, worker safety, and the overall health of communities and the environment via their food service operations.
This brief reveals four ways that investments in a sustainable food system may reduce disease burden as well as financially benefit individual hospitals and health systems.
(Employee engagement toolkit) Here is a sample marketing email that your system can use to internally promote the employee community-supported agriculture offering.
This tool is designed to support hospitals in tracking sustainable food purchasing and local food purchasing and aligns with the data tracking needs at Practice Greenhealth.
This tool is designed to support hospitals in tracking overall reduction in meat purchasing and increases in purchases of meat and poultry raised without routine, non-therapeutic antibiotics, and aligns with the data tracking needs at Practice Greenhealth.
This tool supports food service facilities in tracking their purchasing of healthy beverages, as part of their Healthy Beverage Programs.
This is an article about the onsite vegetable gardens at Seattle Children's Hospital
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