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HCWH Press Releases

• UCSF Task Force Recommends Purchase of Meat and Poultry Raised Without Antibiotics
  HCWH Press Release, May 14, 2013
• HCWH Releases Report on Healthy Food in Health Care
  HCWH Press Release, May 6, 2013
• HCWH Announces 2013 Heathy Food in Health Care Awards
  HCWH Press Release, April 26, 2013
• Bay Area Hospitals Aggregate Demand to Push the Market for Local and Organic Produce from Family Farmers
  HCWH Press Release, October 23, 2012
  
• Food Day Finds Health Care Serving Up Healthier, Sustainable Foods
  HCWH Press Release, October 23, 2012
• Boston Honors Health Care Without Harm With 2012 Mayoral Prize in Primary Care
  HCWH Press Release, October 12, 2012
• Hospitals and Health Professionals ask FDA to Comply With Court Order and To Evaluate Medically Important Antibiotics in Animal Food
  HCWH Press Release, July 23, 2012
• Maryland Bans Arsenic in Chicken Feed, Health Care Instrumental in Passing Legislation
  HCWH Press Release, April 20, 2012
• Bay Area Hospitals Aggregate Demand to Push the Market for Certified-humane, Cage-free Eggs
  HCWH Press Release, March 2, 2012
• FDA Action on Cephalosporins “A Good Start"
  HCWH Press Release, January 9, 2012

• New Report Details Growth of Sustainable Hospital Food Service Programs
  HCWH Press Release, November 14, 2011

• Hundreds Gather in Seattle for Healthy Hospital Food Conference
  HCWH Press Release, October 26, 2011

• HCWH Announces 2011 Sustainable Food in Health Care Awards
  HCWH Press Release, September 27, 2011

• HCWH Applauds Premier Inc for Contract on Sustainable Chicken
  HCWH Press Release, September 6, 2011

• Michigan Health & Hospital Association Endorses HCWH Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge
  HCWH Press Release, June 2, 2011

Healthy Food in Health Care Column, Greenhealth Magazine

The Healthy Food in Health Care program regularly contributes to Practice Greenhealth’s Greenhealth magazine.

• Health Professionals Advocate for a Greener Food System
  Greenhealth, April/May 2013
• What's Cookin'?
  Greenhealth, March 2013
• Purchasing for Mealtime
  Greenhealth, December 2012
• Reducing Food Waste in Health Care
  Greenhealth, October 2012
• Farmworker Health and Safety
  Greenhealth, July 2012
• Hospitals Challenge, Introducing the Healthier Hospitals Initiative
  Greenhealth, April 2012
• Green and Clean, How Clinicians can work towards healthier food systems
  Greenhealth, March 2012

Healthy Food in Health Care in the News

• Policies and Profits — The Power of Institutional Markets for Farmers
  Northwest Agriculture Business Center Blog
• Hospitals Gradually Moving Toward Healthier Food Environments
  Becker's Hospital Review
• Sustainable Seafood Throwdown - Boston Children's Hospital
  
  
  
• Hospital Food That Heals
  Hospitals & Health Networks
• Changes on the Menu
  Modern Healthcare
• You Are What You Eat
  Creative Loafing Atlanta

• Hospital Cafeterias attract Granite State diners
  The Union Leader

• Nursing homes serving local, sustainable food
  The Washington Post
• Believing is Seeing
  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• Hospital food goes gourmet. Sustainable food services offer tasty meals and green choices beyond lime Jell-O
  DOTmed Business News
• Mind Over Matters Sustainability Segment
  KEXP Seattle, 90.3FM Podcast
  
• The State of Hospital Nutrition
  Today's Dietitian
• HFHC collaborates with the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance to secure Boston hospital chefs for a Seafood Throwdown event highlighting sustainable seafood
  Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
• Gary Cohen named Food Hero
  Cooking Light
• A New Prescription for the Local Food Movement
  The Nation
• Survey Tracks Sustainability Progress in Health Care
  Food Management
• Hospitals to Serve "Antibiotic-Free" Chicken, Cargill Recalls More Ground Turkey
  Huffington Post
• Healthy practices: Awards recognize facilities and staff implementing sustainable food programs
  Nurse.com
• Hospital to Urge Staff, Visitors to Drink Healthier Beverages
  Milford Daily News
• The Greening of Food in the Health Care Sector
  Triple Pundit
• Hospitals Offer Workers Gift of Holiday Health
  Jackson Hole Daily
• Doctors Take Aim At Antibiotic Resistance From Factory Farming
  Huffington Post
• Hospitals Provide New Markets For Sustainable Farms
  National Young Farmers' Coalition
  

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