When Baptist Health identified food access as part of its core commitment to improving health outcomes in Northeast Florida earlier this year, it could not have envisioned the scope of the problem it would soon become.
This month, Baptist Health announced it will donate $250,000 to Feeding Northeast Florida. The money will provide an estimated 215,000 meals.
Baptist’s donation to the region’s largest food bank and distributor follows the donation earlier this fall of a refrigerated truck to Waste Not Want Not, a nonprofit based in Orange Park…