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Make Hospital Food Healthy

Join the Physicians Committee’s campaign to Make Hospitals 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.
  • 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.  

Hospitals That Host Fast-Food Restaurants

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

  • Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta
  • Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta
  • Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville 
  • Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville

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

Hospitals That Closed McDonald’s

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

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