Eisner Health Doctors Prescribing Fruits & Vegetables For Second Year in a Row
Low-income patients receive free produce. Award-winning program made possible by Target & national non-profit Wholesome Wave. (July 18, 2017 – Los Angeles, CA) Doctors prescribing fruits and vegetables? Yes. Thanks to additional funding from Target and a partnership with the national non-profit Wholesome Wave, Eisner Health will be participating in the Fruits and Vegetables Prescription […]
Beyond Zero-Sum Choices: The Promise of Funding Intergenerational Equity Solutions
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/6/28/intergenerational-research-what-foundations-can-and-should-be-learning Children and youth are at the very top of many funders’ grantmaking strategies today, as foundation boards look to the future and strive toward better days ahead. There’s a certain optimism associated with youth funding that appeals to donors across the spectrum and provides common ground that everyone can rally around. Meanwhile, though, the […]
¿Por qué las madres gestantes están eligiendo parteras en vez de médicos para dar a luz?
Las futuras mamás se están beneficiando de esta nueva opción, que, sin embargo, requiere de una ardua preparación. Y aunque el método no es nuevo, existe un lugar que lugar que lo hace más accesible. www.univision.com/los-angeles/kmex/noticias/embarazo/por-que-las-madres-gestantes-estan-eligiendo-parteras-en-vez-de-medicos-para-dar-a-luz-video
Dar a luz con partera, un viejo método que está renaciendo en Los Ángeles
Unos 1,200 bebés nacen cada año con la asistencia de las parteras en un hospital del centro de Los Ángeles. No se trata de inexpertas, sino de profesionales a quienes les exigen un título de maestría. Los centros médicos solo les confían los embarazos sin riesgo. www.univision.com/los-angeles/kmex/noticias/embarazo/dar-a-luz-con-partera-un-viejo-metodo-que-esta-renaciendo-en-los-angeles-video?eov=true#eov
Wholesome Wave’s Mission Video
Thank you to our amazing partner Wholesome Wave, for allowing us to be a part of this incredible project – we are so grateful for the opportunity. Through our partnership with Wholesome Wave, we’re helping under-served families become healthier through the FVRx program by giving them access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Scaring Eligible Families Away From the Safety Net
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/trump-safety-net-latino-families/520779/ Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Are Scaring Eligible Families Away From the Safety Net Social-service organizations are reporting a drop in enrollments in food stamps and other programs Annie Lowrey | MAR 24, 2017 NEW YORK CITY—As the evening rush hour peaked, Blanca Palomeque stationed herself by the carts selling roasted corn, tamales, and ice cream at the […]
Families wary of enrolling undocumented kids in Medi-Cal
http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/03/13/69803/families-wary-of-enrolling-undocumented-kids-in-me/ Tens of thousands of children in the U.S. illegally are enrolled in Medi-Cal, but fear of deportation by the Trump administration has many of their parents considering pulling them out of the program. Since Trump’s election last November, parents have been calling the L.A. Care Health Plan to request that their kids be […]
Business, community groups boost health partnerships
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/17/business-community-groups-boost-health-partnerships/97973932/ Investing in community health makes sense “in this political environment and in any political environment,” said Michel Nischan, founder of Wholesome Wave. His group won the Health Means Business’ Partnership of the Year award Thursday for its Los Angeles program, funded by Target, that allows doctors at Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center to write prescriptions […]
Prescrição de frutas e legumes: americanos querem curar doenças com hortofrutícolas
E se quando fosse ao médico recebesse uma prescrição de frutas e legumes em vez dos habituais medicamentos? Nos Estados Unidos da América, uma organização não-governamental está a levar a cabo uma experiência piloto que pretende fazer isso mesmo e os resultados estão a ser satisfatórios, não só na prevenção e na redução de doenças, […]
Hortofrutícolas Prescrição de frutas e legumes: americanos querem curar doenças com hortofrutícolas
E se quando fosse ao médico recebesse uma prescrição de frutas e legumes em vez dos habituais medicamentos? Nos Estados Unidos da América, uma organização não-governamental está a levar a cabo uma experiência piloto que pretende fazer isso mesmo e os resultados estão a ser satisfatórios, não só na prevenção e na redução de doenças, […]