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How to Implement a Plant Based Menu into a Hospital

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I had the pleasure of talking to the DC hospital association along with PCRM’s esteemed Dr. Neal Barnard. Our goals were to talk about how to start a conversation with hospitals about healthy food options. During that hour, I spoke about our experience at the University of Florida with instituting a plant-based menu for our patients. We talked about the barriers that we encountered and how we overcame them. Dr. Barnard talked about universal meals which is super important because allows for one meal plan to be offered to every person—removing all potential allergens and cultural concerns. He showed the financial costs and went through all of the benefits. There were so many good questions. Was really fun to participate in and as always, I am honored to work on these important topics with PCRM and with the DC hospital association. Take a look at the link: https://dcha.org/advocacy-policy/healthy-hospital-initiative/

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American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) features Our Plant Based Menu

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This summer I had the pleasure of spending time with Martin Tull at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) who wanted to do come learn about what we are doing at University of Florida in prevention. Namely, we have an incredible prevention clinic that focuses on nutrition and lifestyle. We have medical student, resident and fellow nutrition education and we have changed the whole discharge education experience for hospital patients to include education on lifestyle tools and a new plant-based menu.

Martin and the team at Full Sail did really nice footage of our work.

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A Better Hospital Menu

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It took us a year to get there…but it is done! The plant-based menu is now available at the University of Florida/Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida for cardiac and vascular patients.

Usually, patients come onto the cardiac and vascular floors and get treated for their illnesses with medications and surgical procedures which are important and often life-saving. However, in most hospitals, there is limited to no education on lifestyle changes patients can make to be healthier after they leave the hospital-to empower people to help in their healing process. At Shands Hospital, patients will now receive education on lifestyle changes they can make to heal their bodies. Changes such as more activity, stress reduction, need for sleep and importantly, proper nutrition will be discussed. Multiple modalities of education will be provided; namely, the new plant-based menu, an education packet will be given to patients providing practical tools to make changes, patients will meet educators, and shown educational movies. So excited about all of these changes!

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