Open AccessDevelopment of a Medically Tailored Hospital-based Food Pantry System
Author(s) -
Francesca Gany,
Sabrina Pan,
Julia Ramirez,
Luke Paolantonio
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of health care for the poor and underserved
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1548-6869
pISSN - 1049-2089
DOI - 10.1353/hpu.2020.0047
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , food insecurity , medicine , environmental health , food security , nursing , geography , agriculture , archaeology
Fifty-six percent of high-needs NYC cancer patients are food insecure, at times choosing between medical treatment and food. We describe FOOD (Food to Overcome Outcome Disparities), an innovative intervention, which has established eleven medically tailored food pantries in NYC cancer centers and distributed the equivalent of 307,080 meals since 2011.