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Cleveland Clinic is continuing its mission to help patients use food as medicine, and Second Harvest Food Bank in Lorain is helping make that mission possible. The collaborative effort started in April and has helped over 100 patients access food when leaving the hospital and beyond.One in seven people in Lorain County suffers from food insecurity, which has increased by 54% since the pandemic. Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital, Dr.
“So, we want to provide these wrap-around services so when they leave the hospital they don't have to come back.”Its partnerships with medical institutions like this, which Second Harvest believes will bring statistics down.“58% have to choose between healthcare and medicine and paying for food,” said Samantha Flores, Director of Programs and Partner Services at Second Harvest Food Bank.
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