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