Check out this Associated Press article on hospitals across the nation changing their food operations to go totally organic. Patients and visitors like it so much, they come back for more after discharge.
Some hospitals have created onsite farmers markets. Others have hired chefs and former restaurant employees to run their kitchens.
“What we are trying to do is provide not just our patients, but everybody that eats here, with foods that are health promoting,” said Nancy Gummer, director of nutrition services at Good Shepherd (Portland, Oregon).
The hospital no longer needs to modify each patient’s sodium or fat restrictions. Instead, it serves healthy food to everyone. In just one year, Gummer has been able to rid the hospital of all trans fats and major additives.
The article mentions hospitals in a number of states (including Vermont) that are picking up on this trend — none in Massachusetts.
Any hospitals in MA trying this?
