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New Farm to Hospital Brochure
Farm to Hospital: Supporting Local Agriculture and Improving Health Care
By Moira Beery, Center for Food & Justice, and Kristen Markley, Community Food Security Coalition.
This brochure introduces interested farmers and hospital food service departments to the ins and outs of developing partnerships between hospitals and local farms. Included are examples of ways hospitals can improve the food they offer, issues for farmers to consider if they are interested in selling products to area hospitals, and specific case studies of successful programs.
Download the brochure for free here.
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The Southern California Healthy Hospital Food Roundtable Meeting
Download resources from the February 23, 2007, Healthy Hospital Food Workshop.
- Sustainable Food PowerPoint
- Menu of Options
PowerPoint
- Kaiser Permanente Produce to the People PowerPoint
- Kaiser Permanente Food Policy PowerPoint
- Southern California Seasonal Produce List (Southland Farmers' Market Assoc)
- Health Care Without Harm healthy hospital food resources
This event was sponsored by the Center for Food & Justice, a division of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, and Health Care Without Harm.
For more information about a healthy hospital food program in your facility, contact Moira Beery at the Center for Food & Justice: beery@oxy.edu or (323) 341-5099
Farm to Hospital
Based on CFJ’s success with farm to school programs, we have expanded our institutional focus to include hospitals and clinics who, with their health focus and prevention messages, are ideal institutions for partnering with local farmers to improve food. Farm to hospital programs can result in better patient and cafeteria foods, and help support small local farms with a portion of the health care industry’s annual $3.3 billion food budget.
CFJ, as a member of Health Care Without Harm, has been working to improve food offerings at hospitals. The farm to hospital approach extends beyond local fruits and vegetables to include other sustainable and health-promoting food purchasing options such a focus on organic food, sustainably raised produce and meats, antibiotic free meat, and rBGH-free (recumbent Bovine Growth Hormone) dairy products. Farmers’ markets on hospital grounds and community health promotion activities are also integral components of the farm to hospital model.
Our Partners:
Resources:
- Farm to Hospital: Promoting Health and Supporting Local Agriculture. Moira Beery and Mark Vallianatos. UEPI. November 2004.
- Sustainable Food PowerPoint
- Menu of Options PowerPoint
- Kaiser Permanente Produce to the People PowerPoint
- Kaiser Permanente Food Policy PowerPoint
- Southern California Seasonal Produce List (Southland Farmers' Market Association)
- Health
Care Without Harm website
- Farmers’ Markets on Hospital Grounds
For more information about Farm to Hospital
Moira Beery
beery@oxy.edu
323.341.5099