Hennepin Healthcare Offers Food Bags to Hungry Patients
A program at the Hennepin Healthcare Clinic in Brooklyn Park is helping patients walk away with more than a prescription and advice from their doctor.
“I have never seen a patient say no to food bags,” said Nimo Ahmed, a nurse midwife with Hennepin Healthcare “They’re always happy to accept it, and many of our families actually need it.”
The Hennepin Healthcare Clinic in Brooklyn Park has partnered with Second Harvest Heartland to offer nutritionally-balanced bags of food for any patient who needs them.
The Hennepin Healthcare Clinic in Brooklyn Park is located at 7650 Zane Ave N.
More than 25 percent of Hennepin Healthcare’s patients experience food insecurity.
Each bag weighs about four pounds and provides enough food for a few meals.
Some of the food bags even contain culturally-specific items to help serve the clinic’s immigrant patients.
“When it includes all this food that they are familiar with, that makes them to accept it and say ‘yes’ to the food bags,” Ahmed said.
The food bag program is funded through donations. If you’d like to help, you can go to the Hennepin Healthcare website. To help this specific program, you would need to select “other” and in the note, state you want it to fund food support for patients.
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