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Healthy Food in Health Care Webinar Series

Implementing Healthy Beverage Policies in Hospitals

A webinar from Health Care Without Harm and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative

Recorded: July 12, 2012
Rebroadcast with new Q&A: February 7, 2013

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Topic

By incorporating a healthy beverages program into a broader sustainable food policy, health care facilities can play an important role in promoting food choices that are beneficial for the health of their communities and the environment.

The Healthy Food in Health Care program of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) promotes the procurement and selling of healthy beverage options through its Healthy Beverages initiative. This webinar will be an introduction to the Healthy Beverages initiative, the science behind it, and how hospitals are participating in Healthy Beverages. Participants will also learn about tools and resources available to them to implement a Healthy Beverages program, and track their progress through the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI).

Ted Schettler MD, MPH, and Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, will first describe the environmental and public health science behind the Healthy Beverages initiative. James Corbett, MDiv, JD, and the System Vice President of Community Health and Ethics at Steward Health Care System (formerly Caritas Christi) in Massachusetts will then present how the Steward Health Care system is implementing a Healthy Beverages program. Stacia Clinton, RD, LDN, and Healthy Food in Health Care Program Coordinator will moderate.

Objectives

Participants will learn about:

• The environmental and health impacts of unhealthy beverage consumption
• Why the issue of healthy beverages is one that hospitals should be concerned about
• How hospitals are already implementing healthy beverage policies
• How HCWH’s Healthy Beverages tools and resources can help health care facilities incorporate healthy beverages into their facilities
• How hospitals can track their progress in implementing healthy beverage policies through the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI).

Presenters

Ted Schettler MD, MPH
Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network

Ted Schettler MD, MPH is Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network.(www.sehn.org).  He also serves as science director of the Collaborative on Health and Environment (www.healthandenvironment.org). He has a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a masters in public health from Harvard University. Schettler has addressed the connections between human health and the food, chemical, built, and social environments in numerous publications and presentations. He has served on advisory committees of the US EPA and National Academy of Sciences.

James Corbett, MDiv, JD
System Vice President of Community Health and Ethics at Steward Health Care System (formerly Caritas Christi) in Massachusetts

James Corbett, MDiv, JD,is the System Vice President of Community Health & Ethics at Steward Health Care System (formerly Caritas Christi) in Massachusetts where he provides oversight to Mission, Ethics and Community Benefits. Before that, he was the Director of Mission Effectiveness at St. Andre Health Care Facility in Biddeford, Maine, then Vice President of Mission Effectiveness for Mercy Health System in Portland, Maine. He received his B.A. in International Relations from Syracuse University, a Juris Doctor from Saint John’s Law School, and a Master of Divinity from Duke University. He is interested in the intersection of public health, law, ethics and community development, and has presented at several conferences on health care, and taught health care law and ethics courses at both the University of Maine Law School and New England School of Law. His career reflects a commitment to serving the poor and disadvantaged through community outreach and development in both the U.S. and abroad. He has written on the importance of mission in a changing health care environment, and has traveled twice to Haiti on medical mission trips.