Plant-Based Hospital

Food
Hernan, Ricardo, Roxanne, and Weronika
OVERALL CHALLENGES

● Funding
● Availability
● Time constraints
● Food Safety
Health Food in Hospital?

● A challenge that hospitals are facing is patient

satisfaction from the foods they are receiving.
● In some hospitals, foods that are being served to
patients are not nutritional in sources of protein,
carbohydrates, and fats
● Many of the hospitals have host of fast food options
or high fat meals that both patients and visitors can
indulge in.
 FUNDING
● The public health system invested $400,000 to start a plant
based option for the patients of Bellevue hospital in New York
City
● The cost of providing plant based foods would depend heavily
on how it is implemented into the system.
● If implemented properly, it is possible that providing a plant
based option could be less expensive.
HOW IS FOOD SERVICE MANAGEMENT
ADDRESSING THE TREND?

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1 2017 2018
2006-ongoing
Healthy Food Options in Plant based meals the
Healthy Food in law in CA institutions
Healthcare Pledge - Hospitals resolution in
Health Care without the U.S. - American
Harm Medical Association

05
04 2019
2019 Plant-based options
Healthy Hospitals guaranteed in hospitals in NY
Amendment Act of 2019 in - bill introduced by the
Washington D.C. Physicians Committee
06
2020-ongoing
HSUS plant-based training in
healthcare facilities and last
month New York Gov. signed
legislation that guarantees
patients in New York are
offered plant-based option.
SENATE BILL 1138
SENATE BILL 1138

● Passed by Governor Jerry Brown in

September 18, 2018
● Officially made it a requirement for
hospitals and prisons to have a plant
based options for the patients and
inmates of these California facilities.
● Sets to satisfy the plant based eaters of
the hospitals while also saving money on
entrees
FUTURE TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

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● Top trends on the
⅓ of American consumers
rise in 2020 are
identify as “Flexitarian”,
plant-based
they intend to eat more
sausage, chicken,
plant-based foods
seafood, eggs, 2 4
and dairy.
50% of millennials eat 95% of plant-based meat
meat alternatives a few is for meat eaters or for
times per week “flexitarians”.
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