Organic garden at Wisconsin hospital offers meals and more

The organic garden behind Beaver Dam (Wis.) Community Hospital has grown in recent years has to not only help provide food for the hospital but also host patient engagement programs, according to the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen.

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Many hospital units use the garden, which has also become a major part a community wellness initiative sponsored by the hospital. Kids Care, Hillside Manor, Eagles Wings and Remembrance Home, all hospital facilities, help tend to the garden. 

“In the Remembrance Home, you can really tell when they are working in the garden that it triggers something from their life,” Linda Klinger, director of rehabilitation services and wellness at the hospital, told the Daily Citizen. “Those skills never go away.”

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