Team London Impact Report
Report
National Cohorts
Procurement
Sustainable Food and Menus
Harvesting Hope for a Healthier World
Team London’s aspirations centred on deepening community connections related to food security and supporting patients after discharge by ensuring they had continued access to appropriate food. The Team strove to enhance the existing hospital garden, sustain and grow partnerships, and shift food procurement practices to become more local and sustainable. Compared to their participation in Nourish’s second Anchor Cohort where they focused efforts within Food and Nutrition Services, the Team aspired to expand impact to include other departments and with community partners.
“Through our work with Nourish over the past four years we have experienced the vital connection between food, health, and community. Each cohort has built on the last – reducing waste, testing on-site growing, advancing food prescribing, and fostering new partnerships. At the heart of this work is the belief that food is medicine, nourishing both people and the planet. By working with our partners and community, we are improving the patient and resident experience today while building a healthier, more sustainable future.”
Lori Higgs, Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer, St. Joseph’s Health Care London
Meet Team London
St. Joseph’s Health Care London is located in the city of London, Ontario. Renowned for compassionate care, St. Joseph’s is a leading academic health care centre dedicated to helping people live to their fullest by minimizing the effects of injury, disease, and disability through excellence in care, teaching, and research in a wide range of hospital, clinic, and long-term and community based settings. It manages 963 beds, serving over a million meals, annually.
Urban Roots is a non-profit organization that revitalizes underused land in the City of London for agriculture by producing high-quality organically grown produce, distributing produce equitably through our model of thirds, developing urban agricultural educational opportunities, and growing an ecological urban agricultural model.
Atlohsa Family Healing Services is a charitable Indigenous non-profit organization in Southwestern Ontario, dedicated to strengthening the Indigenous community through Indigenous-led programs and services that offer wholistic healing and wellness.