Complete Eats: Summer Meals Offered by the Emergency Department for Food Insecurity

• 2019

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• Danielle Cullen; Abigail Blauch; Morgan Mirth; Joel Fein
PMID: 31484676DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2019-0201

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This article describes a program called "Complete Eats," which provides summer meals to people facing food insecurity. The meals are offered by an emergency department as part of a public health effort. It includes details about how the program was set up and evaluated to help those in need during the summer months.

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Focus Area: Everyday Emergency

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Food Services; Food Supply; Hospitals, Pediatric; Hospitals, Urban; Pilot Projects; Poverty; Program Evaluation; Public Health; Seasons; Urban Population; United States Department of Agriculture; Emergency Service, Hospital; Meals; Food Insecurity

Institutions: University of Pennsylvania; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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