Sustainability Practices for Food Service Operations

Health Care Without Harm Healthy Food in Health Care Program

New England

Why Change the Hospital Food Environment?

Strategies to Improve the Hospital Food Environment

Effectively Integrating Local Foods into a Hospital Food

Service Operation

Keys to integrating local foods into an operation

Waldo County General Hospital

Employee engagement: Taste testing in cafeteria

Educating Community Members & Staff with TV Cooking Show!

Training staff; Gaining Buy-In

Building Staff Confidence in Scratch/Local Cooking Preparation

Doing a Farm Inspection with Sarah

Local Products We Purchase

Farmers

Using fresh Produce

Melinda, Brooke, Sheila

Employee taste testing of local products

Engaging Employees in the Healthy Changes

Promoting local foods in the cafeteria

Thank you!

Maine Hospital Association

What does hospital food mean to you?

Ditch the gray meat & gravy…

Why local?

How to use local…

When did we start?

Who do we use?

Who do we use?

Young’s Farm- Sedgwick,ME8 miles from BHMH

What can we do better?

Composting

Where Do We Start?

Compostable scraps are collected at individual work stations in the

kitchen

Many things that currently go here…..

Can now go here !!

Scraps are staged in the dish room during the day in the totes provided

The vendor picks up at our loading dock twice per week and transfers the

food scraps back to their facility

“Recipe”

End Result

Return on investment !

Cost

Steps to success

References