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==Management== | ==Management== | ||
1. Food Pharmacy: Refer them to the Harbor Food pharmacy verbally (“Please come to the front of Harbor UCLA at the ED entrance | 1. Food Pharmacy: Refer them to the Harbor Food pharmacy verbally (“Please come to the front of Harbor UCLA at the ED entrance '''Wednesdays''' | ||
at 10:00am. One box of fruits and vegetables per person, until supplies run out") | |||
==Disposition== | ==Disposition== | ||
Revision as of 23:55, 16 August 2020
Background
See below for a compilation of resources for Harbor patients facing social determinants of illness:
1. Food Pharmacy
2. Life Line Phones
3. One Degree
4. Whole Person Care
5. Violence/Trauma prevention
Evaluation
1. Evaluate for food insecurity via the Hunger Vital Sign questionnaire [1,2] (Positive if they answer Yes to either or both: “ Within the past 12 months we worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more.” “ Within the past 12 months the food we bought just didn’t last and we didn’t have money to get more.”)
Management
1. Food Pharmacy: Refer them to the Harbor Food pharmacy verbally (“Please come to the front of Harbor UCLA at the ED entrance Wednesdays
at 10:00am. One box of fruits and vegetables per person, until supplies run out")
Disposition
See Also
External Links
References
< [1] Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Development and Validity of a 2-Item Screen to Identify Families at Risk for Food Insecurity. Pediatrics, 126(1), 26-32. doi:10.1542/peds.2009-3146.
[2] Gundersen C, Engelhard EE, Crumbaugh AS, Seligman HK. Brief assessment of food insecurity accurately identifies high-risk US adults. Public Health Nutr. 2017;20(8):1367-1371. doi:10.1017/S1368980017000180"