COMMUNITY TEACHING KITCHEN

Providence Milwaukie Hospital surveys our community every three years and identifies needs. Food insecurity and hunger was identified as a growing need. Visionaries including our faculty, our hospital’s CEO and the Milwaukie Hospital Foundation raised money to build and support the Community Teaching Kitchen (CTK), Food Pharmacy and garden. The CTK is part of the national Teaching Kitchen Collaborative.
Several of our faculty have been involved with the CTK since the beginning .
Professional chefs volunteer to lead cooking classes
The CTK staff provide nutrition education, cooking classes spread out over six weeks and they run a Food Pharmacy linked with the Oregon Food Bank.

The Providence Milwaukie Hospital has a community garden that provides fresh vegetables
Our community is also supported with food donations from local businesses such as Bob’s Red Mill and Pacific Foods.

We screen all of our patients for food insecurity and offer referral to the CTK and Food Pharmacy
Many of our senior residents do an Food as Medicine elective in the CTK
Residents and Faculty have presented scholarly work locally and nationally on our CTK and outcomes
In the pandemic, all classes have switched to virtual. We look forward to returning to inperson classes as soon as safely possible.

Community Teaching Kitchen

Nutrition Consults and Diabetes Education Sessions

Sessions for Nutrition and Diabetes Education

Cooking Matters™

Cooking Matters™is a national curriculum for educating patients on valuable self care skills along with nutrition, ways to fix healthy meals on a fixed budget and other cooking skills. At Milwaukie, the course is a six week course with a 4 hour class each week. The sessions include making a healthy meal for 4 that costs under 10 dollars and a shopping trip to educate on ways to shop economically for healthy foods.