--- title: Cleveland Clinic Removes McDonald's From Cafeteria Over Health Concerns description: The Cleveland Clinic has dropped McDonald's and says it wants to promote healthier options. canonical: https://time.com/4005332/cleveland-clinic-mcdonalds/ author: Benjamin Snyder/Fortune article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-20T18:57:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:20:05.760Z article:section: Health og:title: Cleveland Clinic is the Latest Hospital to Dump McDonald's og:description: The clinic says it wants to promote healthier options. og:url: https://time.com/4005332/cleveland-clinic-mcdonalds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69e53261539a0dd6/698852f9cd684871380a02e5/gettyimages-112561118.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: McDonalds Holds National Hiring Day To Add 50,000 Employees og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cleveland Clinic is the Latest Hospital to Dump McDonald's twitter:description: The clinic says it wants to promote healthier options. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69e53261539a0dd6/698852f9cd684871380a02e5/gettyimages-112561118.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cleveland Clinic Is The Latest Hospital To Dump McDonald's by [Benjamin Snyder/Fortune](https://time.com/author/benjamin-snyderfortune/) ## Benjamin Snyder/Fortune Aug 20, 2015 6:57 PM UTC  A McDonald's employee prepares an order during a one-day hiring event at a McDonald's restaurant on April 19, 2011 in San Francisco, California. A McDonald's employee prepares an order during a one-day hiring event at a McDonald's restaurant on April 19, 2011 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Benjamin Snyder/Fortune](https://time.com/author/benjamin-snyderfortune/) ## Benjamin Snyder/Fortune Aug 20, 2015 6:57 PM UTC A hospital cafeteria probably isn’t the first place you’d think of to get your McDonald’s fix. But after September 18, it will no longer be an available option at the Cleveland Clinic. The hospital announced it’s cutting ties with the fast food chain in order to promote wellness, [NPR reported](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/19/432885995/so-long-big-mac-cleveland-clinic-ousts-mcdonalds-from-cafeteria). “Cleveland Clinic wants to help patients and visitors and our employees turn to healthier lifestyles and healthier choices,” according to clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil to The Salt. The hospital is reportedly the seventh since 2009 to get rid of a McDonald’s in its cafeteria, according to NPR. In other McDonald’s news, the chain is hoping to boost sales with a new innovation: [Egg McMuffin’s offered all day](http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/egg-mcmuffin-mcdonalds-sales/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4005332/cleveland-clinic-mcdonalds/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4005332/cleveland-clinic-mcdonalds/"},"headline":"Cleveland Clinic Is The Latest Hospital To Dump McDonald's","datePublished":"2015-08-20T18:57:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:20:05.760Z","description":"The clinic says it wants to promote healthier options.","url":"https://time.com/4005332/cleveland-clinic-mcdonalds/","keywords":["Mcdonald's","Fast Food","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69e53261539a0dd6/698852f9cd684871380a02e5/gettyimages-112561118.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Benjamin Snyder/Fortune","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/benjamin-snyderfortune/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69e53261539a0dd6/698852f9cd684871380a02e5/gettyimages-112561118.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"McDonalds Holds National Hiring Day To Add 50,000 Employees","caption":"McDonalds Holds National Hiring Day To Add 50,000 Employees","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4005332/cleveland-clinic-mcdonalds/","name":"Cleveland Clinic Is The Latest Hospital To Dump McDonald's"}}]}] ```