A retired physician donated $4 million to Trinity Health Oakland to help build a food hub hospital-based farm in Pontiac.

A spokesperson for Trinity Health tells us the money from Dr; Ross Weinstein, M.D., will go towards ongoing farm operations and establish a new Food Hub, a food distribution center on the hospital campus. The hub will be on The Farm at Trinity Health Oakland, which was built in 2020 just outside the hospital's North entrance.

I am inspired by The Farms work to feed those in our community who are food insecure, said Dr. Weinstein in a statement. As a serious gardener, I like the forward-thinking idea of connecting nutrition to more traditional medicine, as well as community and resident education. Im so impressed with how far The Farm has come in just five years, and I

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