A low-intensity program that “prescribes” community resources to a hospitalized child’s parents or caregivers has proven to reduce acute healthcare use for kids in food-insecure families in the following year. The clinical study notes this solution could save thousands of dollars in healthcare expenditures while only demanding “minutes of staff time” per family. Over three years, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center, US, provided 640 food-secure and food-insecure parents and other primary caregivers of hospitalized children with standard care only or additional support in a CommunityRx-Hunger intervention.
