Children’s Hospital of San Antonio Plans New Healthy Culinary Program

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Hospitals can be a role model in the community, a trusted source for information not only about healing sickness but about healthy living. In San Antonio, TX, where over half the population is Latino, one hospital has decided to step-up their role as a health care provider for children in the community.

The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is partnering with the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio (CIA), the Goldsbury Foundation, and H-E-B, to begin a new culinary health and education program aimed at reducing childhood obesity and improving access to nutritious food for patients of the Hospital and the community at large.

According to a press release on June 4th, 2014, the program will provide a comprehensive and carefully designed approach to childhood health and nutrition, incorporating many first elements in the community like: 

• First Children’s Hospital Teaching Kitchen, designed by The Culinary Institute of America, which will offer nutrition and hands-on cooking courses created by the CIA in conjunction with the clinical experts at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, with support of Aramark, the Hospital’s food services provider. These will be offered to patients and open to the general public.

• First Children’s Hospital to be surrounded by extensive Teaching and Healing gardens, designed by OVERLAND and CO’DESIGN, will include 2.4 acres for patients and families to play, pray, and learn through interactive experiences, and about the foundations of a healthy diet.

• Along with H-E-B, launching “Prescriptions for Produce,” a program in which physicians of the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio can write prescriptions for produce to be redeemed at their local H-E-B stores.

All these changes will help families in San Antonio continue to make healthy living the daily standard.