Examples of Hospitals with Healthy Food and Beverage ...

Examples of Hospitals with Healthy Food and Beverage Policies

Baylor Health Care System (TX) The entire Baylor system, which includes more than a dozen facilities, is eliminating sugarsweetened beverages (SSB) from cafes and vending machines. The only options now available are diet drinks, fruit juices, or water.

Children's Mercy Kansas City (Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS) Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, which includes seven locations in Kansas City, introduced the TakeCARE employee wellness program in 2008 and participated in the national initiative Collaborate for Healthy Weight in 2011. In 2012, Children's Mercy joined Partnership for A Healthier America to make a hospital-wide healthy food commitment, including purchasing and serving more fruits and vegetables, marketing healthier foods, adopting healthy check out (only health-promoting food options within five feet of all cash registers), and labeling foods and beverages with calorie information.

Children's Mercy began offering wellness meals in 2013 and offers at least one option for children's meals and three options for adults in cafeterias and on patient menus. Wellness meals for children must contain ................
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