Thursday Dec 14 episode for CBC's The Current included several segments pertaining to food:

Part 1: Discusses nutritive value of hospital food and issues pertaining to local food distribution for hospitals (e.g. regulations requiring institutional food services to have an open bidding process for large food supply contracts across canada).

American examples of private hospitals (Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, CA) and insurance providers (Kaiser Permanente also in CA) that are taking a lead in making local food a priority (including a 1/4 acre on-site garden at the hospital) The segment is 1/2 hour, but most of the local food issues are heard in the 13min - end of segment.

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200612/20061214.html