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North American hospitals are making hospital food good medicine as part of a Food In Medicine initiative that grew out of a 2022 White House conference. Boston Medical Center’s Power Plant Farm grows more than 30 varieties of crops and harvested 4,000 pounds of organically grown produce last year, and its Preventive Food Pantry serves more than 1,600 families. The Farm at Trinity Health Ann Arbor in Ypsilanti, MI is one of the oldest hospital farms in the US. Its farm-share box program runs for 36 weeks over the growing season, and anyone can sign up. FIM interventions could eliminate 1.6 million hospitalizations in the US annually and save $13.6 billion in health-care costs per year, according to a 2023 report.