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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Less Meat, Better Meat Tracking Tool

• Food
• Less Meat
• Food Tool

This tool is designed to support hospitals in tracking overall reduction in meat purchasing and increases in purchases of meat and poultry raised without routine, non-therapeutic antibiotics, 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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Bronson Healthcare: Serving local eggs

• Food
• Food and Beverage Purchasing
• Food Case Study
• Case Study
• Bronson Healthcare

Bronson Healthcare,the largest employer in southwest Michigan, serves nearly two million meals per year. Bronson Healthcare has a goal to source 70 percent of their food locally.

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Gundersen Health System: Tech-based measuring for food waste prevention

• Food
• Food Case Study
• Case Study
• Gundersen
• Waste
• Food
• food waste
• Toolkit

 A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “If you can do something to reduce the waste, you’re doing the right thing for the environment, you’re saving money, and you’re doing something that’s socially responsible. It’s a win-win-win all the way around.”  – Tom Thompson. Gundersen Health Systems' baseline revealed they were throwing out an average of half a ton of food every week — approximately 24…

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Gundersen Health System: Tech-based measuring for food waste prevention

• Food
• Food Case Study
• Case Study
• Gundersen
• Waste
• Food
• food waste
• Toolkit

 A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “If you can do something to reduce the waste, you’re doing the right thing for the environment, you’re saving money, and you’re doing something that’s socially responsible. It’s a win-win-win all the way around.”  – Tom Thompson. Gundersen Health Systems' baseline revealed they were throwing out an average of half a ton of food every week — approximately 24…

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HealthPartners: Composting and animal feeding to reduce food waste

• Food
• Case Study
• HealthPartners
• food waste
• Waste
• Toolkit

A Practice Greenhealth Case Study “Organics recycling and food waste diversion remain very important to us, and we are slowly but surely working to expand both the number of facilities with organics recycling and the types of materials that can be recycled.” – Allison Egan, HealthPartners Sustainability Consultant HealthPartners wanted to reduce sending organic waste to the landfill. They…

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Advocate Health Care: Introduction of antibiotic-free meat

• Food
• Antibiotics
• Exemplary Document
• Advocate Health Care
• Food Tool

Advocate Health Care provides a list of frequently asked questions and answers about phasing in antibiotic-free meat to their hospital as part of their environmental stewardship and antibiotic stewardship programs.  

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