Healthcare Partners
Helping families with
Food-based health care.
We are a partnership between health care providers, insurers, the Mid-Ohio Food Collective and patients. The Mid-Ohio Farmacy links patients to the healthy foods needed to manage and improve health with weekly access to fresh produce at participating sites, under the helpful guidance of a doctor. Though many patients do have a long term health condition, many healthcare providers screen and refer 100% of food insecure patients, regardless of if they have a health condition.
Our goal is to support people with nutritious food to prepare at home. We do not give patients any form of medicine through Mid-Ohio Farmacy. We give weekly access to fresh produce so that patients have a great resource for the healthy foods.
Now, we’re teaming up with even more health care partners—like you.
Food is medicine.
Preventive medicine can help prevent chronic health conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. A 2015 pilot program of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank working with individuals with diabetes, found that by giving patients diabetes-appropriate food, blood sugar monitoring, primary care referral, and self-management support, there was a significant improvement in mean HbA1c from baseline (8.11 percent) to follow-up (7.96 percent). There were also significant improvements in fruit and vegetable intake, self-efficacy, diabetes distress, medication nonadherence, and trade-offs between buying food or medicine.
The Mid-Ohio Farmacy connects patients to fresh produce that will improve health outcomes of all members of the household. The goal is to establish a systematic way to screen for and address food insecurity through an electronic, closed-loop referral system, which connects patients to fresh produce from a food pantry near their home.
Case study.
We partner with FQHCs, Insurers, and health systems across Ohio.
Partnership with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Department of Family Medicine.
Is this an evidence- based approach?
Preventative medicine can help prevent chronic health conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity – and we know that food is medicine. A pilot program that Mid-Ohio Foodbank was a part of in 2015 working with individuals with diabetes, found that by giving patients diabetes-appropriate food, blood sugar monitoring, primary care referral, and self-management support, there was a significant improvement in mean HbA1c from baseline (8.11 percent) to follow-up (7.96 percent). There were also significant improvements in fruit and vegetable intake, self-efficacy, diabetes distress, medication nonadherence, and trade-offs between buying food or medicine.
Current healthcare partners.
Find out more about partnership opportunities.
We are adding partners and providers to the Mid-Ohio Farmacy network all the time! Join us by contacting our team to talk about how we can develop a partnership to serve your patients.
Let’s connect!
