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Food Is Medicine: Incorporating Pantries into Clinical Care
Food is increasingly recognized as a critical component of health care. The Food Is Medicine (or Food as Medicine) movement builds on this recognition by integrating food-based interventions into clinical care to help patients prevent and manage health conditions. Alongside medically tailored meals, groceries, and produce prescriptions, food pantries located in hospitals and clinics allow providers to address patients’ nutritional needs as part of their medical care.
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The Standard-Times
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Rep. Worrell Wants Legislation To Look Into Pharmacy Deserts
Pharmacist Mike Wilson has managed to keep the lights on at Dorchester Ave’s Crawford Drug by offering services that chain stores won’t match. His store near St. Mark’s church section is an oasis in a neighborhood that has, increasingly, become part of a larger “pharmacy desert” in Boston.
Martha's Vineyard Times
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Downtown Crossing Clinic to Close Dec. 18 as Its Building Is Set for Housing Conversion
Patients of MGH Downtown Associates have until Dec. 18 to plan for the closure of the primary-care practice at 294 Washington Street. The Boston Globe reported that Mass General Brigham is ending the practice, which has served the neighborhood for more than two decades, and that developer Synergy plans to convert the building to apartments. The Globe estimated that 8,000 to 10,000 patients will be affected.
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Salem Breaks Ground On 24/7 Freestanding ER Near Tuscan Village, Opening Set For 2027
Parkland Medical Center broke ground on a $16 million freestanding emergency room at 53 South Broadway in Salem, on the site of a former Rite Aid near Interstate 93 and across from Tuscan Village. The 24/7 facility is expected to open in summer 2027 and will bring hospital-level emergency care within a 15-minute drive for roughly 30,000 residents.
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Scituate Boil Water Order Drags On After E. Coli Found, Second Bacteria Detected
Scituate residents have been boiling their tap water or buying it bottled since Friday, after a water sample came back positive for E. coli, and the situation has only gotten murkier since then. A follow-up test cleared that specific contaminant but turned up a different bacteria in the system, and as of Saturday, town officials still could not say when the order would be lifted.
The Herald News
Parent Diaries
Daniel Peaceman Was Trying to Beat Mass Pike Rush-Hour Traffic to the Hospital, but His Third Son Had Other Plans in the Left Lane
Daniel Peaceman's third son was born in the left lane of the Mass Pike in Newton on Oct. 28 while the couple was on with 911. Mom and baby are doing fine. The post Daniel Peaceman Was Trying to Beat Mass Pike Rush-Hour Traffic to the Hospital, but His Third Son Had Other Plans in the Left Lane appeared first on parentdiaries.com .