McLaren Oakland has partnered with The City of Pontiac and Eastern Market to sponsor a weekly local market and offer a readily available supply of fresh produce.
Every Thursday through October, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern Market in Pontiac will host an open-air sale of its various fruits and vegetables along Perry Street outside of McLaren Oakland, near Huron Street.
“This has been a fun and inspiring project, made all the more exciting by it being right outside our offices, and we are grateful to see if finally materialize,” said Laura Harmon, McLaren Oakland Chief Nursing Officer. “The correlation between access to fresh produce and greater overall health is well established, and to have a partner as renown as the Eastern Market makes it all the more special to those of us involved, especially the local community.”
Hosting its first sale on Thurs., July 11, Eastern Market in Pontiac offered a rainbow variety of bell peppers, bunches of bananas, avocados, spicy peepers, and ears of corn on the cob — a summer favorite — among other produce that will vary each week.
“The aim of opening this produce market is to create a regular and reliable offering of accessible fresh fruits and vegetables, while making it as convenient as possible for our Pontiac residents," said Pontiac Mayor Tim Greimel. "A huge thank you to Eastern Market and McLaren Oakland for their incredible support. Together, we can make a difference.”
Learn more by visiting mclaren.org/oakland and pontiac.mi.us.
About McLaren Oakland
McLaren Oakland is a 318-bed hospital that provides primary and specialty healthcare services to the greater Pontiac and Oakland County, Michigan communities. Founded in 1953, McLaren Oakland has grown to a comprehensive medical community that includes outpatient facilities in Clarkston and Oxford, in addition to an inpatient hospital in Pontiac providing a range of clinical services including emergency and trauma care, cardiology, cancer services, minimally invasive robotic surgery, and orthopedic services. McLaren Oakland offers ACGME accredited residency and fellowship programs in anesthesiology, diagnostic radiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, and transitional year, in addition to a CPME accredited podiatry program. Learn more at mclaren.org/oakland.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6.6 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 13 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Learn more at mclaren.org.