Food is Health Infrastructure: A Policy Framework for Healthy, Sustainable Food in Canadian Health Care

After a decade of working alongside healthcare leaders to transform food in hospitals and long-term care, Nourish is presenting a clear set of policy recommendations for governments.

Healthcare leaders have advanced this work within the limits of existing mandates and resources; sustained government leadership is now required to embed it across the health system.

This is a critical moment for governments to provide the mandate, funding, and accountability needed to take this work to scale. Doing so would activate hospitals and long-term care organizations as anchor institutions who more effectively steward health and wealth in communities, and at a planetary scale.