Work in Action

Nemours Children’s Health

Nemours Children’s Health published a social determinants of health playbook, which aims to improve providers’ ability to effectively screen patients and connect them to social services. The tool allows providers to integrate hunger screening into routine and acute care of patients.

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More Work in Action

Building A Successful Partnership Starts with a Shared Vision

Both NACDS and the Milken Institute’s Feeding Change (Feeding Change), shared a common vision to make Food Is Medicine easily accessible to all. Together, with NACDS’ expertise on pharmacies and Feeding Change’s expertise on food systems, the opportunity to explore how pharmacies could be leveraged to advance access to Food Is Medicine became a natural fit for collaboration.

Serving Up Healthy Foods for those Most in Need

However, people that are critically ill may also be immobile or live in an area with limited access to healthy and affordable foods, also known as a food desert, and may not be able to maintain a healthy diet on their own. The combination of limited access to nutritious food, a lack of financial resources, and the complexity of adhering to dietary recommendations, make an already scary situation even more difficult.