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Delivering community benefit: Healthy food playbook

WEBThe "Delivering community benefit: Healthy food playbook" is a suite of resources to support hospital community benefit professionals and community partners in developing community health interventions that promote healthy food access and healthier food environments. …

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Healthy eating education Healthy food playbook

WEBHealthy eating education can include nutrition classes to address specific health conditions, individual nutrition counseling, youth education, nutritional mentorships, teaching kitchens or cooking classes, supermarket or on-farm tours, and the distribution of recipe pamphlets …

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Hospital community benefit roles Healthy food playbook

WEBThis brief outlines nine common role categories — and on-the-ground examples — that hospitals are playing in support of these programs: Provide grant support. Provide use of hospital facilities. Conduct food insecurity or health screening. Conduct nutrition, food, …

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Funding healthy food access interventions Healthy food …

WEBThis guidance brief helps identify funding sources for a set of healthy food access interventions. Note that locally, there may be community, family, and corporate foundations, as well as state and local departments of agriculture, health, and senior services, that …

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Evaluating healthy food access interventions

WEBThe primary goals of your initiative should be linked to the health needs identified in the hospital's community health needs assessment. Increasing economic and physical access to healthy foods, improving dietary patterns, and increasing nutrition, shopping, and …

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Program: Food banks and pantries Healthy food playbook

WEBIn 2017 KAFB Farm to Food Banks program distributed 3,610, 000 pounds of produce to food banks and, as a result, provided 390 farmers with an average of $1,700. Farm-to-food banks programs offer community benefit departments a great opportunity to increase …

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Resources Healthy food playbook

WEBEvaluating, reporting, and communicating results. Recommendations and resources for evaluating healthy food access interventions, reporting support for these initiative types on IRS Form 990 Schedule H, and communicating successes to stakeholders.

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Hospital leadership as healthy food advocates

WEBTakeaways. Hospital leaders, especially those at the executive level, are playing a critical role in steering their facilities to address the root causes of health. Food insecurity is a major public health issue and has implications for community health, clinical care, and …

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Research Reports Healthy food playbook

WEBThis research report presents findings from a comprehensive study of hospital community benefit practices to promote healthy food access and healthy eating to address diet-related health conditions. The report identifies opportunities and challenges for greater …

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Program: Healthy corner stores Healthy food playbook

WEBTakeaways. Healthy corner store initiatives employ a suite of strategies to increase access to and promote healthy food options in small retail settings. These initiatives align with recommended strategies to promote greater consumption of fruits, vegetables, and other …

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Community health needs assessment Healthy food playbook

WEBDelivery community benefit: Healthy food playbook is a service of Healthy Food in Health Care at Health Care Without Harm. © 2018 Health Care Without Harm

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Honoring local knowledge, growing health, and improving equity

WEBNew Mexico is ranked 37th in the country for overall health and often has some of the worst rankings for social indicators of health, including rates higher than the national average for poverty, low food access, and food insecurity. Presbyterian’s food-related work is part of …

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Food insecurity screening Healthy food playbook

WEBIn 2015, 15.8 million U.S. households (12.7 percent of the U.S. population) were food insecure at some time during the year; Food insecurity and poor access to healthy foods limit people’s ability to have a balanced diet and places children and adults at higher risk …

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Case Studies Healthy food playbook

WEBOnce the nation’s automotive epicenter, Genesee County and the city of Flint experienced economic decline, poverty, and health crises but today it is a “community in recovery.”

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Connecting food-insecure individuals to resources

WEBThere are a number of local and national resources hospitals can access or share with food-insecure community members. This brief provides information on how hospitals can connect food-insecure patients and community members to local and federal resources. Food …

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Making the healthy choice the easy choice Healthy food playbook

WEBHealth indicators. Poverty: 27.9% of families, 43% of children. Obesity: 30.3% of adults, 13.4% of children. Diabetes: 14% of adults. Montefiore Medical Center, located in the Bronx — the northernmost borough of New York City — serves a culturally rich and diverse …

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Community health risks of industrial agriculture

WEBThis brief gives an overview of industrial-scale, conventional agriculture practices and associated health risks, for both agricultural workers and the wider community. It also suggests ways in which hospitals can consider these risks as part of their community …

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Hospitals and food policy councils Healthy food playbook

WEBIn 2015, the Massachusetts Food Policy Council developed a statewide, “Local Action Food Plan,” a comprehensive, 160-page document that involved over 1,500 participants and details ambitious goals to advance food policy in the state. The plan lists specific goals …

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