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Food Is Health Pilot Improves Patients' Diabetes Markers - AAFP
An Ohio-based family medicine residency program has discovered a way to encourage good nutrition in patients with diabetes whose households also struggle with food insecurity.
Even better, outcomes one year after the start of the Food is Health program -- initiated by the OhioHealth Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program in Columbus -- show patient weight loss, improved blood sugars and positive attitudes.
Details about the program and its successes were highlighted at the Residency Program Solutions portion of the AAFP's Residency Education Symposium.
Residency program director Laurie Hommema, M.D., along with Miriam Chan, Pharm.D., program director of the Riverside Methodist Hospital Quality and Safety Fellowship and director of scholarly activity and population health at the residency program, led the session.
An Ohio-based family medicine residency program has discovered a way to encourage good nutrition in patients with diabetes whose households also struggle with food insecurity.
Even better, outcomes one year after the start of the Food is Health program -- initiated by the OhioHealth Riverside Family Medicine Residency Program in Columbus -- show patient weight loss, improved blood sugars and positive attitudes.
Details about the program and its successes were highlighted at the Residency Program Solutions portion of the AAFP's Residency Education Symposium.
Residency program director Laurie Hommema, M.D., along with Miriam Chan, Pharm.D., program director of the Riverside Methodist Hospital Quality and Safety Fellowship and director of scholarly activity and population health at the residency program, led the session.