Healthy Food in Health Care

The Healthy Food in Health Care Program is part of a broader, national campaign through Health Care Without Harm. It works to expand the network of interested hospitals transitioning their current food procurement practices toward purchasing more sustainably-produced foods for their patients and staff.

• Listen to what Gary Cohen, Founder & Co-Director for Health Care Without Harm, speak about healthcare being a major driver for sustainable agriculture in support of healthier communities and disease prevention.
• Click here to read how to get started
• Sign the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge today!
• Model Hospitals
• Recipes
• Events
• Resources

These model health care facilities are serving nutritious, local and organic foods to their patients, visitors and employees, demonstrating ways to improve community health, and supporting their local economy.
Featured Hospital
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor
 

These monthly recipes feature nutritious, local and organic foods and emphasize fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and other health foods that may prepared in a hospital kitchen or simply made in your own home.
Featured Recipes
Fresh-Pickin' Raspberry Chicken and Eggplant with Peanut Sauce
Upcoming Events Healthy Food in Health Care Leadership Workshop Burlington, Vermont September 20th – 22nd Join collogues from across the country who share your interest in cost effective, healthy and sustainable food service. This two-day intensive workshop includes practical and inspirational information to help you take the next steps to create the food service you want, no matter where you are in the process. » Read more Healthy Food Systems, Health, and Agriculture Policy Webinar Series September – December 2010 Michigan Green Health Care Committee's 3rd Annual Conference October 22, 2010 Grand Rapids, MI Balanced Menus Challenge Through Balanced Menus hospitals can mitigate climate change, reduce costs and promote nutritional health.

Past Events Michigan Apple Campaign September 2009 through March 2010 Support PAMTA Electronic Petition & Toolkit: Healthcare representatives nationwide have expressed their opposition to non-therapeutic use of medically important antibiotics by supporting the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 619/H.R. 1549) also known as PAMTA. FoodMed 2009 Conference On June 30th and July 1st in Detroit, over 200 attendees gathered for the FoodMed 2009 Conference – the Third Conference on Local, Sustainable Food in Health Care…
Michigan Hospitals Making Progress Hospital leadership videos Hospital links promoting progress Local Agriculture & Economic Development The Food System as an Economic Driver (PDF) Organizations catalyzing change Video focus: CS Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture

Detroit's Urban Agriculture Videos of community champions for change Organizations improving communities Limits of Industrial Agriculture Organizations identifying CAFO pollution CAFO overview video with the Union for Concerned Scientists   Other Helpful Links