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Food Resources
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Food Resources By Issue
1. Start a conversation about healthy food.
Food & Food Purchasing: A Role for Health Care (Going Green 8-1)(pdf)
A Call to Action from the First Annual Conference on Nutrition and Health
A 13 point statement and call to action developed from the March 2004 First Annual Conference on Nutrition and Health sponsored by the University of Arizona College of Medicine's Program in Integrative Medicine and The Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities (pdf)
May 2005 report by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Food and Health Program documenting stories of health care leaders bringing fresher, healthier food choices to their patients, staff, and communities.
Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)
Report by the Prevention Institute.
2. Contract with a GPO, Distributor or Food Service Provider that Supports Healthy Food
3. Implement purchasing policies for meat and poultry raised without non-therapeutic antibiotics.
Antibiotic Resistance and the Agricultural Overuse of Antibiotics Fact Sheet (Going Green 8-2)(pdf)
Feeding Arsenic to Poultry: Is This Good Medicine? (Going Green 8-6)(pdf)
Guide to Poultry Applicable Eco-labels (pdf)
Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Poultry (pdf)
Sample Policy for Purchasing Meat with Reduced Antibiotics (pdf)
Sample Poultry Supplier Sur vey Questions (pdf)
HCWH's policy statement on antibiotics in food (pdf)
Keeping Antibiotics Working (pdf)
Article by Barbara Sattler, RN, originally published in The Maryland Nurse.
Preserving Antibiotics for the Treatment of Human Disease (pdf)
Article by Carol Sherman, RD, and John Balbus, MD/MPH, originally published in Innovator.
Keep Antibitotics Working Action
4. Model Local, Nutritious, Sustainable Food at Conferences, Meetings and Workshops
Society for Nutrition Education: Guidelines To Increase The Use Of Local Foods At Meetings and downloadable brochure A Sense of Place: Serving Local Food at Your Meeting (pdf).
5. Buy milk produced without recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone.
HCWH's statement on Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) (pdf)
A Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Dairy Products Produced Without rBGH (pdf)
Know Your Milk (pdf): Oregon Physician’s for Social Responsibility eight page referenced brochure on rBGH
Catholic Healthcare West has signaled its intention to eliminate dairy produced with rBGH in this letter to HCWH.
6. Buy organic and other certified food.
Avoiding Pesky Produce Pesticides
A short article about food production and pesticide use, going organic, and a "Most and Least Contaminated Produce" chart. By Julie Redfern, RD of Brigham & Women's Hospital.
7. Consider an overarching food policy.
Catholic Healthcare West Food and Nutrition Vision Statement (doc)
Healthy and Sustainable Food Policy (pdf)
The City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Health Sustainable Food Policy, which applies to all County Hospitals.
Toward a Healthy, Sustainable Food System American Public Health Association policy statement
9. Become a fast-food free zone
A 2006 report by The American Medical Association performed a survey of fast food in healthcare facilities and found that of the 234 hospitals surveyed, 42 percent were selling brand-name fast food on their campuses.
In a 2002 report, researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and Ann Arbor VA Medical Center found 38 percent of the nation's top health institutions had regional or national fast food franchises on their main medical campuses.
10. Limit use of vending machines and replace unhealthy snacks with healthy choices.
Healthy Vending Criteria
Hospital Vending Goes Healthy, Auburn Journal, 11/10/05
11. Host a farmers' market on hospital grounds.
Farmers' Markets on Hospital Grounds (Going Green 8-4)(pdf)
Kaiser Permanente's Farmers' Market Resource Guide (pdf)
Produce to the People (pdf)
A case study of the first-ever farmer's market linked to a hospital. Dr. Preston Maring tells how and why local producers are partnering with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, CA.
13. Compost, divert and reduce food waste.
Choosing Environmentally Preferable Food Service Ware (pdf)
Biobased Food Service Ware and Packaging (pdf)
Fletcher Allen Healthcare (pdf)
Norfolk General Hospital (pdf)
14. Buy certified coffee.
Transfair Fair Trade Coffee Program
Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Coffee and Tea (pdf)
Saint Louise sips from the fair trade cup, Hollister FreeLance, 8/26/04
In the interests of social justice, California-based Saint Louise
Regional Hospital replaced frozen-concentrate coffee in its cafeteria
with fresh-brewed stuff that is certified "fair trade."
HCWH Publications
Menu of Change, Healthy Food in Health Care: A 2008 Survey of Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge Hospitals (pdf)
Food & Food Purchasing: A Role for Health Care (Going Green 8-1)(pdf)
Antibiotic Resistance and the Agricultural Overuse of Antibiotics Fact Sheet (Going Green 8-2)(pdf)
Healthy Food In Health Care: A Menu of Options (Going Green 8-3)(pdf)
Farmers' Markets and CSAs on Hospital Grounds (Going Green 8-4)(pdf)
Food Eco-Labels: A Purchasing Guide (Going Green 8-5)(pdf)
Feeding Arsenic to Poultry: Is This Good Medicine? (Going Green 8-6)(pdf)
Seasonal Foods: A New Menu for Public Health (Going Green 8-7)(pdf)
Case Study: Incorporating Locally and Sustainably Produced Foods into Food Services (Going Green 8-8a) (pdf)
Case Study: Purchasing Directly from a Community Farming Cooperative (Going Green 8-8b) (pdf)
Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge (pdf)
Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Dairy Products Without rBGH
Purchasing Guide to Sourcing Food Without Genetically Engineered Ingredients (pdf)
Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Poultry (pdf)
Purchaser's Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Coffee and Tea (pdf)
HCWH Position Statement on Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) (pdf)
HCWH Position Statement on Genetically Engineered Food (pdf)
Guide to Poultry Applicable Eco-labels (pdf)
Choosing Environmentally Preferable Food Service Ware (pdf)
Biobased Food Service Ware and Packaging (pdf)
Sample Poultry Supplier Sur vey Questions (pdf)
Sample Policy for Purchasing Meat with Reduced Antibiotics (pdf)
HCWH's policy statement on antibiotics in food (pdf)
Robert Wood Johnson White Paper - Redefining Healthy Food: An Ecological Health Approach to Food Production, Distribution, and Procurement (pdf)
Case Studies
Health care institutions are finding creative solutions to the challenges of providing nutritional food to patients, visitors, and staff in a way that promotes food systems which are ecologically sound, economically viable, and socially responsible. Below are case studies that showcase current successful programs.
On-site Farmers' Markets - Kaiser Permanente Medical Facilities (pdf)
Purchase of Local and/or Organic Foods for Patients and Cafeterias (pdf) Hospital Food Project (NHS), London, England
On-site Farmers' Market - Allen Memorial Hospital (pdf) Waterloo, Iowa
On-site Farmers' Market - Duke University Medical Center (pdf) Durham, NC
On-site Farmers' Market - National Institutes of Health (pdf) Bethesda, Maryland
Other Resources
Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities (pdf)
May 2005 report by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Food and Health Program documenting stories of health care leaders bringing fresher, healthier food choices to their patients, staff, and communities.
Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture (pdf)
Report by Prevention Institute.
Keeping Antibiotics Working (pdf)
Article by Barbara Sattler, RN, originally published in The Maryland Nurse.
Preserving Antibiotics for the Treatment of Human Disease (pdf)
Article by Carol Sherman, RD, and John Balbus, MD/MPH, originally published in Innovator.
Produce to the People (pdf)
A case study of the first-ever farmer's market linked to a hospital. Dr. Preston Maring tells how and why local producers are partnering with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, CA.
Avoiding Pesky Produce Pesticides
A short article about food production and pesticide use, going organic, and a "Most and Least Contaminated Produce" chart. By Julie Redfern, RD of Brigham & Women's Hospital.
Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy (pdf)
On the surface, California’s food system is a vision of abundance and prosperity. But a closer look reveals a range of serious problems, including degraded ecosystems, obesity alongside hunger, an ailing farm economy, appalling farmworker conditions, and a distribution system that favors trade over local needs. Meanwhile, control of the entire food system, from seed to table, is being centralized within a handful of corporate giants. A new report by the International Society for Ecology and Culture reveals the connections behind these seemingly isolated problems. See the report summary and full report. (pdf, 424k and 1.3MB, respectively)
Toronto Food Policy Council discussion papers
A series of 15 discussion papers on various elements of a food systems approach to public health policy. The papers are available to be downloaded in PDF format.
A Call to Action from the First Annual Conference on Nutrition and Health
A 13 point statement and call to action developed from the March 2004 First Annual Conference on Nutrition and Health sponsored by the University of Arizona College of Medicine's Program in Integrative Medicine and The Rosenthal Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine of Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Kaiser Permanente's Farmers' Market Resource Guide (pdf)
Links
Keep Antibiotics Working
National Catholic Rural Life Conference's Agriculture & Food Issues page
Agriculture of the Middle
Slow Food
US Department of Agriculture
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Food and Health Program
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