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Food in the Marketplace
My hospital's farmers' market photo essay
POSTED: January 13, 2008

Recently an article was published about our Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center's farmers market in "The Journal of Life Sciences". The author and the photographer did a great job of capturing the spirit of our market and the diversity of...

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From the Farm to Our Patients
POSTED: December 16, 2007

Recently, I had the privilege to visit 2 of the 22 local farms that provide food for Kaiser Permanente’s inpatient meal trays. The fields that grew succulent melons and ripe cherry tomatoes that graced 6000 meals per day last summer,...

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Another Small Step
POSTED: November 06, 2007

Copied and pasted below is an e-mail from Kaiser Permanente's lead dietitian in National Procurement and Supply. Here she is writing all the facility based food service managers at our 19 hospitals. She tells the evolving story well. "Hello, On...

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One Step At A Time
POSTED: October 28, 2007

Almost 15 months ago, members of an organization called the Growers’ Collaborative began delivering source identified fruits grown by small and midsize, new and beginning, immigrant farmers for use on Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California hospital inpatient meal trays. As I...

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The Dawning of Local Consciousness
POSTED: September 17, 2007

A nine year old thinks local.....

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