Comments on: St. Joe’s Plows Ahead with Local Food

By: Jennifer Steiner

Jennifer Steiner — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:44:27 +0000

Kudos to SJMH! and to Dave Raymond and Mike Score – Two men of great vision for the future – linking service, nutrition, business, and agricultural development of Michigan in this unique and exciting project

By: Barbara O'Donnell

Barbara O'Donnell — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:53:20 +0000

Fantastic — long over due — but happening — wonderful news — Barbara O’donnell

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:09:39 +0000

This is fantastic! I have renewed respect for St. Joes! Now how do we get U of M to follow suit?

By: Neil Moran

Neil Moran — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:05:10 +0000

Are you really using Visqueen as a covering? Visqueen won’t withstand UV rays. Tufflite is a better choice, or a poly woven covering. Just trying to help. The project sounds great, I can’t wait to see how it does and maybe tour it someday.

By: Lizzie Burt

Lizzie Burt — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:03:08 +0000

Thank you for putting patients first!!

By: Mary Mandeville

Mary Mandeville — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:53:22 +0000

Excellent Idea. Way to go St Joe!

By: Beth Manuel

Beth Manuel — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:43:52 +0000

This is fantastic news!

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:47:50 +0000

Hmmm, what did I mean by “spontaneous”? Obviously a lot of work and planning went into the effort.

Maybe I meant an effort that is clearly initiated by an individual institution (and many of its officials and volunteers), a “bubble-up” effort, rather than a response to some regulatory or other governmental directive.

Or maybe I just meant that I was surprised to see such a full-fleshed program “suddenly” appear.

Regardless, it was very good news.

By: Hillary Bisnett

Hillary Bisnett — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:07:55 +0000

Hi Denise and Diana and all others interested!

I am very happy to share that I am the Healthy Food in Health Care Coordinator for the Ecology Center and I actively work with many hospitals in the state working to serve healthier food to their patients, staff and communities!! To date these are the ones that have signed Health Care Without Harm’s Healthy Food Pledge: Bronson Methodist Hospital, Sparrow Hospital, Northern Michigan Regional Hospital, Borgess Health, Metro Health Hospital, Chelsea Community Hospital, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

You can take action too!: It’s great for all of you to tell your hospitals you would like them to serve local and/or organic foods.

Cheers!

By: Diana Dyer

Diana Dyer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:57:10 +0000

Denise,
Actually Bronson Medical Center in Kalamazoo was the first Michigan hospital to sign on to the Health Care Without Harm pledge.

Vivienne, I know you really didn’t mean “spontaneous” – perhaps unexpected? – as there was nothing spontaneous about the planning that went into this event or the anticipated future benefits to the entire community from this example of a health care institution putting emphasis on creating health versus treatment of disease.

I agree that this effort is hopeful, so much so that I will always now look at “hoop houses” as “hope houses”. :-)