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Food Is Medicine innovations for rural hospitals.

Food is Medicine (FIM) is an innovative strategy rural hospitals can use to improve outcomes for patients, communities, and local economies. Mounting evidence shows that FIM approaches affect root causes of disease and are cost effective, bridging the gap between medicine and nutrition by tackling social drivers of health.

Topics

  • Food Is Medicine (FIM) approaches most relevant to rural hospitals and state-level support strategies for FIM
  • Linkages between local rural economic development, hospitals, and FIM
  • FIM’s positive health outcomes, including positive impacts on social drivers of health
  • Hospital coding and billing strategies for food insecurity and FIM

Presenters:

Michelle Shippy, MS, RDN, LDN | Executive Director, Healthy Hoosiers Foundation

Julie Valliant, Indiana University Food and Agrarian Systems Program, Research Scientist

Cost:

No charge for VIP Subscribers. $25 per individual or $100 per facility for non – subscribers.