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Reducing Hospital Readmissions: Addressing the Impact of Food Security and Nutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Mathew Swinburne ,
Katie Garfield  and
Aliza R. Wasserman
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Abstract

Food insecurity in the United States is a profound public health challenge that hospitals are uniquely situated to address. Through the enactment of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, the Affordable Care Act provides a strong economic incentive for hospitals to actively confront food insecurity within the communities they serve. While there is a spectrum of nutrition interventions that hospitals can look to when engaging in these efforts, healthy food prescriptions and medically tailored meals are two particularly innovative and promising approaches that could help hospitals reduce readmissions by addressing the nutritional needs of vulnerable patients.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 45 , Issue S1: 2016 Public Health Law Conference — Lead, Connect, Innovate: Strategies for Achieving Health Equity , Spring 2017 , pp. 86 - 89
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2017

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