HEALTH CARE FOOD PURCHASING POWER

Serving healthy inpatient meals that meet nutritional standards

Health Care Without Harm: over 1,000 hospitals are committed to purchasing and serving more fresh, healthy food.

Implementing Balanced Menus

Less Meat, Better Meat: hundreds of hospitals are reducing the amount of meat they purchase and serve and buying more sustainably produced meat.

Offering vending machine healthy picks

Kaiser Permanente: more than 1,000 vending machines restocked so 75% of food and beverages meet Healthy Pick’s criteria for being lower in fat, calories, sodium, and sugar.

Serving healthier cafeteria and cafe options

Partnership for a Healthier America’s Hospital Healthier Food Initiative: more than 700 hospitals committed to healthy food practices that improve the nutrition of patient meals and cafeteria options.

Reducing or eliminating sugar-sweetened beverages

Vanguard Health’s four, Chicago-area hospitals phased out all sugar-sweetened beverages from their facilities, in the implementation of Cook County’s “Rethink Your Drink” program.