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Community Benefits from Community Benefits: A Comprehensive Approach to Food Access and Health
Coupled with the Food Bucks program patients are being enrolled in nutrition education programming. In addition to working with patients to connect them to resources in the community, the hospital is also increasing their presence and bringing the “clinic” into the community by placing Lankenau ambassadors at select farmers’ markets to provide nutrition information, conduct health screenings, and other family-oriented wellness activities.
This session will provide an overview of an innovative partnership between a major medical center and a local non-profit working together at the intersection of nutrition, food insecurity, primary care, and community health.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Chronic disease management and prevention
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Program planning
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate an innovative partnership between a major medical center and a local non-profit working together at the intersection of nutrition, food insecurity, primary care, and community health.
Discuss recommendations for others looking to incorporate nutrition programming into routine medical care.
Explain how a health system's community benefit program can have a direct impact on food access and improved nutrition.
Describe a novel approach to a partnership and collaboration between a non-profit, large health system, and department of health.
Keyword(s): Community Health Assessment, Nutrition
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have served as the principal on multiple regional and national programs focusing on obesity, disparities, hospital community benefit, and primary care. My past experience includes serving as a Program Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focusing on childhood obesity, quality of care, and health care innovation. I have worked at the intersection of social determinants of health and primary care as the Executive Director of Health Leads New York.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.