Harbor: Social Resources

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")

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"