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How Hunger Relief is Fitting into Food as Medicine

WEBCapital Area Food Bank is embracing research as it seeks to get sustained funding from insurers through a Medicaid 1115 waiver. Since early 2022, it has been …

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A Hospital’s “Open-Access” Pantry Model Fuels Usage

WEBA Hospital’s “Open-Access” Pantry Model Fuels Usage. January 10, 2023. As more people recognize that food is integral to health, more hospital-based food …

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A Food Bank’s Five-Part Food is Medicine Plan

WEBFebruary 23, 2024. Two years of knocking on doors and building relationships with health care clinics helped Tarrant Area Food Bank win a large grant from CVS Health …

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Plugging into Healthcare Pays Off for Minn. Food Bank

WEBPlugging into Healthcare Pays Off for Minn. Food Bank. May 26, 2021. The healthcare system may be vast and complicated, but finding a way to work within it can …

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Food is Medicine Gets a Boost from HHS Dept.

WEBFood is Medicine Gets a Boost from HHS Dept. January 31, 2024. Feeding America shared center stage with Instacart and Rockefeller Foundation today as the …

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The Next Big Thing in Healthcare Partnerships

WEBMay 9, 2023. There’s no doubt that the new ability in some states to tap Medicaid money as reimbursement for nutrition services is attracting attention from the hunger-relief …

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How Food Banks are Leaning Into Nutrition

WEBApril 27, 2022. Food banks have long emphasized better nutrition in the food they distribute. Now, serious structural changes are making elevated nutritional quality a lasting …

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Pantries Explore Pathways to Better Nutrition

WEBA report released last month by the USDA found that 88% of SNAP participants faced challenges to eating a healthy diet, with most (61%) citing cost as the …

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Helping Pantries Expand into Social Services – and Get Paid For It

WEBJanuary 30, 2024. It was a Friday afternoon in late summer when Bryan Wang, the CEO of bosWell Inc., knocked on the door of Better Lives Rhode Island, a Providence-based …

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“Groundbreaking” Decisions Advance Use of Medicaid Funding for

WEBNovember 8, 2022. In an effort timed to coincide with the White House’s convening on hunger, nutrition and health, the Department of Health and Human Services recently …

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Mental Health Gets Full Treatment at This Food Pantry

WEBThe connection between poor mental health and food insecurity comes as no surprise to the people who run Chicago-based Lakeview Pantry. While the pandemic …

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This is What Trauma-Informed Hunger Relief Looks Like

WEBSeptember 28, 2021. CUMAC’s two-story facility in Northern New Jersey has the look and feel of a standard food bank, with a warehouse, a handful of trucks, a client-choice …

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Research Drives Pantry to Adopt New Food Distribution Model

WEBThe researchers found that households that visited pantries within seven days of receiving SNAP and still had benefits reported 32% fewer cases of fair/poor health …

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Program Puts Food as Medicine Front and Center

WEBA more recent stream of funding comes from North Carolina’s 1115 Medicaid waiver, which allows $650 million of the state’s Medicaid funding to go to non …

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Food Insecurity Costs $53 Billion in Extra Healthcare

WEBFood insecurity accounted for nearly $53 billion of extra healthcare expenditures in the U.S. in 2016, according to a Centers for Disease Control and …

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What Equity Looks Like Inside the Food Bank

WEBJuly 28, 2020. At Oregon Food Bank, the path toward greater equity is starting from within. The food bank is one of the few and perhaps the only to have created a senior …

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How One Pantry is Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

WEBWhile engaging in the work required to break the cycle of poverty is gratifying, it is also expensive. The budget for FreshStart this year is $225,000. Given …

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San Fran Food Bank Advances Food Pharmacy Concept

WEBThere is a new category of food distribution in the works, and the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is helping to define it. Rooted in the concept of food as medicine, SFMFB is …

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