Tools and resources

The Healthy Beverage Tracking Tool

• Food
• Food Tool
• Food and Beverage Purchasing

This tool supports food service facilities in tracking their purchasing of healthy beverages, as part of their Healthy Beverage Programs.

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Palomar Health: Sustainable, local, and organic food purchasing

• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Food Case Study
• Food
• Case Study
• Food Service

With its position in the community, 4,400 employees, and over 2 million meals prepared per year, Palomar Health has a significant opportunity to make a positive impact on human health and the environment by serving more sustainable, local, and organic produce. This case study highlights this California health system's efforts to leverage the supply chain, collaborate with other hospitals, educate…

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Seattle Children’s Garden Seattle Children's (2016)

• Green Building
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Exemplary Document
• Food
• Report

Seattle Children’s Hospital has promoted onsite food producing vegetable gardens for a couple of reasons. The first is to connect patients and families to healthy foods and let children experience harvesting, cooking and eating local organic produce. The second is to test the capacity for supplying produce to kitchen operations.   In the teaching garden, nutritionists hold classes on growing…

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University of Washington Medical Center: Sustainable food services policy

• Food
• Environmental Nutrition
• Food Service
• Exemplary Document
• University of Washington Medical Center

This is a sustainable food services policy from the University of Washington Medical Center. Implicit in the University of Washington Medical Center’s (UWMC) mission statement is its “commitment to the ongoing health of the people of the region.” This is a commitment to the wellbeing of UWMC patients, staff, visitors, students, the City of Seattle and the broader Northwest community it serves.…

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Food Purchasing Tools: Infant Formula

• Food
• Purchasing
• Guide

Use these suggested environmental considerations in your RFP’s or RFI’s as a way to evaluate supplier responses or guide decisions in the purchasing process.  

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Seattle Children's 2016

• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• Employee engagement
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Guide
• Food

Open this resource to view examples of Seattle Children's Hospital's internal web pages on sustainability.

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Purchasing non-dairy beverages

• Food
• Purchasing

Questions to ask suppliers and to take into consideration when making purchasing decisions about non-dairy beverages.  

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MedStar Montgomery: Community health needs assessment report

• Food
• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• MedStar
• Community Benefit

In 2012 MedStar Montgomery Medical Center (MedStar Montgomery) conducted a community health needs assessment (CHNA) in accordance with the guidelines established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Internal Revenue Service. This exemplary document describes findings of the CHNA, the 3-year implementation plan, and how MedStar addressed heart disease through community…

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NorthShore University Health System: Community benefit report

• Food
• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• Community Benefit
• NorthShore University Health System

This exemplary document describes findings of the community health needs assessment, the implementation plan, and how NorthShore University HealthSystem addressed community needs through community benefit programming, projects, and partnerships.  At NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore), we believe in serving and investing in the health and well-being of people who live in our…

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University of Vermont Medical Center: Community benefit report

• Food
• Engaged Leadership
• Exemplary Document
• Community Benefit
• UVM Medical Center
• University of Vermont Medical Center

This exemplary document describes findings of the community health needs assessment, the implementation plan, and how the University of Vermont Medical Center addressed community needs through community benefit programming, projects, and partnerships. 

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