Farm to Hospital

Building Farm to Institution Markets

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WEBINAR: Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Emerging Health Care Markets -- A Hospital-Focused Presentation

Hospitals and hospital systems represent a sizable potential market for sustainable farmers, and interest in increasing purchases of local, sustainably produced food among hospitals and hospital systems is growing.

WEBINAR: Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Emerging Health Care Markets -- A Farmer-Focused Presentation

Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Hospitals: Farmer-Focused Report

Executive Summary

Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Hospitals: Hospital-Focused Report

Executive Summary Key lessons learned The 1,493 community hospitals and VA hospitals/medical centers in the north central U.S.—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and Wisconsin—spend an estimated $718 million to 1.3 billion each year on food and beverages.

Growing Farm to Hospital

A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown.

IATP Congratulates Abbott Northwestern on Healthy Food Initiative

A new healthy food initiative launched by Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the largest hospital in the Twin Cities, is part of a growing trend to bring healthy, local food to health care.