The closed-loop, scalable care model is critically needed, as roughly 1 in 7 households nationwide (about 47 million people, including over 7 million children) experience food insecurity.
Watershed Health, the company driving patient care coordination across the healthcare ecosystem, on Tuesday announced that, with USA Health, the academic health system for the University of South Alabama, and Feeding the Gulf Coast, a Feeding America food bank serving the central Gulf Coast, they are spearheading a new care model to fight patient food insecurity.
USA Health and Feeding the Gulf Coast serve areas in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. When university hospital staff screen a patient and identify food insecurity risk, a referral directly flows in a HIPAA-compliant manner through Watershed Health to Feeding the Gulf Coast, which then connects the patient to food resources, SNAP benefits, and nutrition education. This closed-loop, scalable model is critically needed, as roughly 1 in 7 households nationwide (about 47 million people, including over 7 million children) experience food insecurity…