Harbor: Social Resources

Background

Compilation of resources for patients with social determinants of illness

1. Food Pharmacy (for anyone who is food insecure or has a diet-related illness)

2. Whole person care

3. Violence/Trauma prevention

4. One degree

5. Life Line Phones

Evaluation

1. Evaluate for food insecurity via the Hunger Vital Sign questionnaire [1,2] (Positive if they answer Yes to either or both: “ Within the past 12 months we worried whether our food would run out before we got money to buy more.” “ Within the past 12 months the food we bought just didn’t last and we didn’t have money to get more.”)

Management

1. Refer to the Harbor Food pharmacy verbally (“Please come to the front of Harbor UCLA at the ED entrance Wednesday mornings to pick up food. 1 Box per person in your family, until supplies run out) and include a Food Prescription by going to [Discharge]--> [Patient Education] tab on --> Select "Departmental" --> Search "Food" or click on "Food Pharmacy-HAR (Spanish/ English)" in the search results

References

< [1] Hager, E. R., Quigg, A. M., Black, M. M., Coleman, S. M., Heeren, T., Rose-Jacobs, R., Cook, J. T., Ettinger de Cuba, S. E., Casey, P. H., Chilton, M., Cutts, D. B., Meyers A. F., Frank, D. A. (2010). Development and Validity of a 2-Item Screen to Identify Families at Risk for Food Insecurity. Pediatrics, 126(1), 26-32. doi:10.1542/peds.2009-3146.

[2] Gundersen C, Engelhard EE, Crumbaugh AS, Seligman HK. Brief assessment of food insecurity accurately identifies high-risk US adults. Public Health Nutr. 2017;20(8):1367-1371. doi:10.1017/S1368980017000180"