Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care






Local and Sustainable Foods
   

 

Coalition Projects

The Coalition’s involvement in local and sustainable foods includes three projects, with two of them in progress. Please see the details below:

1. Using Food Origin Audits to Advance Collaboration and Purchasing Arrangements between Local Food Suppliers, a Health Care Facility and a Group Purchasing Organization.
In Progress: Go to Project Area »

2. Exploring the Feasibility and Benefits of Incorporating Local Foods into Ontario’s Healthcare System.
In Progress: Go to Project Area »

3. Local Food for Health Care: An assessment of the practicality, cost benefit, health and environmental benefits of incorporating more local food into patient and cafeteria meals.
View the Completed Report (pdf) and Presentation (pdf) or Go to Project Area »

4.  Addressing Barriers to Local Food Procurement in the BPS by Increasing the Local Food Purchases at Ross Memorial Hospital and Evaluating Impact
Go to Project Area »

 

 

Media Coverage


Can We Cure Hospital Food? From: Reader's Digest Canada, March 2012
www.readersdigest.ca/magazine/true-stories/can-we-cure-hospital-food

Listen to Radio Canada's interview with Hayley Lapalme, the Sustainable Food Systems Coordinator for the Coalition and My Sustainable Canada, about the Local Food for Health Care program. Or download the MP3. (French)

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Local Food Document Library

For documents, links and other resources related to local food in health care, please visit our Local Food Document Library. >>
 

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The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, as well as the support of our partners.

The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the
Government of Ontario. La Fondation Trillium de l'Ontario
est un organisme du gouvernement de l'Ontario.