Tools and resources

Local and sustainable food tracking tool

  • Food
  • Local Food
  • Food Tool
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.  

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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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Washington Hospital and Healthcare: Sustainable food policy

  • Food
  • Environmental Nutrition
  • Food Service
  • Exemplary Document
  • Washington Hospital
This is a sustainable food policy from Washington Hospital and Healthcare. In accordance with Washington Hospital Healthcare System’s Statement of Environmental Goals, we will strive to be an environmental leader in a manner that protects environmental and human health. In establishing a healthy and sustainable food policy, Washington Hospital recognizes its responsibility to carry out its…

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Purchasing fresh, canned, and frozen produce

  • Food
  • Purchasing
  • Local and sustainable purchasing
  • Local Food
  • Sustainable procurement
  • Guide
Questions to ask suppliers and to take into consideration when making purchasing decisions about fresh, canned, and frozen produce. 

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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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