Nourish Boxes now as the Pharmacy!

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Integrated into the hospital’s existing pharmacy space and building off the Abundance FoodRx virtual food pharmacy platform, the Healthy Food Pharmacy pilot is illustrating healthy food can be medicine just as importantly as picking up prescription medications at the same pharmacy counter. Dr. Kelly Garrett, Director of Pharmacy Services, is championing the Healthy Food Pharmacy concept, recognizing its ability to impact health improvement, disease prevention, health disparity reduction, and resource access, all by improving access to healthy foods, that are aligned to an individual’s diet-related health-state needs, right from the pharmacy. 

Our outpatient pharmacy is the only walk-in public pharmacy in Allendale County, enabling a trusted resource to pilot a Food is Medicine concept for many local residents. With nearly 90% of Americans living within five miles of a pharmacy, and both high-risk Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries visiting their local pharmacy more often than their primary care provider, it is being quickly recognized the vital role of the pharmacy within a Food is Medicine approach.