Make Hospital Food Healthy

• If you are a hospital administrator or employee, visit our resource portal to get started with the Healthy Food in Health Care Toolkit.

• Check the list below and see if your local hospital hosts a fast-food restaurant. If so, urge it to only host restaurants that offer healthful, cholesterol-free plant-based meals.

• The Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta is planning to add a Chick-fil-A restaurant. Please send a Tweet to the hospital: @GAChildren’s stay #FastFoodFree and promote #PlantBasedRx! @ChickfilA: Stay Away! Or email the acting CEO of Augusta University Health System, Brooks Keel, PhD, president [at] augusta.edu (president[at]augusta[dot]edu). Young patients at Children’s Hospital of Georgia need tasty plant-based meals that will help them heal. 

• Ask your local hospital to adopt the Healthy Food Options in Hospitals policy issued by the American Medical Association (AMA). Hospitals should provide tasty, plant-based options that can speed recovery as well as prevent and even reverse diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Hospitals should also eliminate cancer-causing processed meats including hot dogs and bacon.  

Alabama

Chick-fil-A

• University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital

California

McDonald’s

• Naval Medical Center San Diego in San Diego 

Florida

Chick-fil-A 

• Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville 
• UF Health Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville 

McDonald’s

• Tampa General Hospital in Tampa 

Wendy’s

• Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola
• UF Health Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in Gainesville

Georgia

Chick-fil-A

• Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta
• Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville 
• Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville 
• University Hospital in Augusta 

McDonald’s

• Northside Hospital in Atlanta

Michigan

Wendy’s

• DMC Harper University Hospital in Detroit

Mississippi

Chick-fil-A

• Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg
• North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo 
• University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson 

McDonald’s

• Methodist Rehabilitation Center/University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson

North Carolina

Chick-fil-A

• Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte 
• Duke University Hospital Complex in Durham 

Ohio

Wendy’s

• Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus

Oklahoma

Chick-fil-A

• Duncan Regional Hospital in Duncan 

South Carolina

Chick-fil-A

• Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville 
• Medical University of South Carolina University Hospital Complex in Charleston 

Tennessee

Chick-fil-A

• Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson 

Texas

Chick-fil-A

• Texas Children's Hospital in Houston 
• Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth
• Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock
• Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas
• University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
• University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston 

McDonald’s

• John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth 
• Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston 

Virginia

Chick-fil-A

• Chippenham Hospital in Richmond
• Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond 

Wendy’s

• Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond

California

• Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in Los Angeles | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2015
• Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2016

Florida

• Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale closed McDonald’s restaurant in 2019
• Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami closed McDonald’s restaurant
• Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2014

Georgia

• Children's Hospital of Georgia in Augusta, closed McDonald’s restaurant 2021
• Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2016
• Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon

Indiana

• Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2013

Iowa

• Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines | Closed McDonald’s restaurant

Kentucky

• Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2016

Minnesota 

• Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2016

Missouri

• Truman Medical Center in Kansas City | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2012

Ohio

• Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2015

Texas

• Ben Taub Hospital in Houston | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2017
• Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi | Closed McDonald’s restaurant 2015

• 2017 Survey of Children’s Hospitals Reveals Hazardous Hot Dogs
• 2016 Highlighting Hazardous and Healthy Hospital Food Environments
• 2014 The Five Worst Heart Hospital Food Environments
• 2012-13 The Five Worst Children’s Hospital Food Environments
• 2011 The Five Worst Hospital Food Environments