Hospitals and Food Insecurity

Some hospitals prescribe food, take other steps to fight food insecurity, By Christopher J. Gearon, December 8, 2015, US News and World Report: “At Boston Medical Center, physicians write prescriptions for food when patients don’t have enough to eat. Doctors in the center’s emergency department and more than 20 clinics screen all patients for hunger, writing those who struggle to feed themselves a script to the on-site Preventive Food Pantry. They write a lot of food prescriptions – enough to keep the food pharmacy serving 7,000 people each month…”