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Yale public-health students and clinicians urge hospitals to include medically tailored nutrition in community health needs assessments
Summary
A Yale School of Public Health student and community volunteers told the committee that mandating identification of medically tailored nutrition for patients with diabetes and heart failure in community health needs assessments could reduce hospitalizations and lower costs. They cited peer-reviewed and modeled savings evidence and urged equitable, statewide adoption.
Elizabeth Caldwell, a graduate student at the Yale School of Public Health, testified that community health needs assessments should identify and address the nutritional needs of patients with diabetes and heart failure and that medically tailored meals function as clinical interventions.
Caldwell cited published…
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