A Connecticut hospital is using a rooftop garden and local farming to boost patient satisfaction, according to an article on the Hospitals & Healthcare Networks website.
A New Milford Hospital is championing food as preventive medicine by focusing on seasonal, unprocessed food.
Vegetable dishes will include what was picked from its rooftop garden that day, or what it received from the nine local farms from which it regularly sources ingredients.
For hospitals that are looking to implement similar programs, Chef Kerry Gold says it's important to "do away with the myth that locally farmed food is costly." Not only is it comparable in price, he says, the health benefits pay for themselves.
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