Harvesters, Humana and Sunflower Medical Group Join Together to Establish Mobile Food Distribution in Greater Kansas City
March 14 2019 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Partnership will fight food insecurity and
enable Sunflower to be the first local health system to roll out a
mobile food option for patients and the community
Harvesters–The Community Food Network, Sunflower Medical Group and Humana Inc. (NYSE:
HUM), announce a mobile food collaboration that will offer members
of the community fresh, nutritious food items at Sunflower’s
location in Kansas City, Kan. on the fourth Saturday of each month,
at 1:00 p.m. CT, beginning March 23rd, 2019. Patients of the Health
System, as well as members of the Greater Kansas City area that are
in need of food, can visit Heartland Primary Care at 2040 Hutton
Rd, Kansas City, Kan. where they can receive food, at no cost.
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The initiative will help fight food insecurity in the area and
the community will find it easy to access the new services. In
fact, to receive food, people will not have to show proof of
residency or income.
“No patient or member of our community should have to choose
between medication and food,” said Dr. Yvette Guislain Crabtree,
Sunflower Medical Group’s president. “We’re proud to partner with
Harvesters and Humana to improve the lives of the community and
give back healthy days by launching a food distribution program
that will help our patients achieve their best health.”
Food insecurity is a societal issue that affects 1 in 8 people
in the United States. In the Kansas City area alone, nearly 14
percent of the community face food insecurity. Defined as the lack
of access to enough nutritionally adequate foods to live an active,
healthy life, food insecurity contributes to poor health, lower
productivity and higher medical costs. “Helping our patients with
food insecurity will help them to stay healthier and better able to
take care of their overall health,” said Dr. Guislain Crabtree,
Sunflower Medical Group. “Since we started screening our patient
population for food insecurity we have found many more people than
we thought we would find who will benefit from this program.
"We are excited to launch this new mobile food distribution in
partnership with Humana and Sunflower Medical Group," said
Harvesters' President and CEO, Valerie Nicholson-Watson. "The
distribution will help us increase access to fresh fruits and
vegetables to families in need of emergency food assistance and to
those managing chronic illnesses like diabetes and hypertension. We
know the right type of food can help people lead healthier
lives."
Humana’s objective is to create partnerships and integrated
health systems that are positioned to address social determinants
of health, such as food insecurity and social isolation, and how
they impact health care outside of the doctor’s office.
“Our collaboration with Harvesters and Sunflower Medical Group
aims to bring mobile food distribution to an area with unmet
needs,” said Jeremy Gaskill, Humana’s regional president. “This
joint community effort expands our outreach and addresses the
demand for emergency and supplemental food as we seek to provide
solutions that address food insecurity in the Kansas City Metro
area.”
To find out more about mobile food distribution at Sunflower,
visit https://www.sunflowermed.com/.
About Sunflower Medical Group:
Sunflower Medical Group is an independent group of primary care
physicians comprised of Sunflower Medical Group, Heartland Primary
Care and Women’s Clinic Associates. We are proud to have attained
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) certification level
3, the highest level, as a Patient Centered Medical home (PCMH) and
to have been selected for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus pilot
program by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS)
innovation center. The group’s 4 main locations are located
throughout Johnson county and Wyandotte county. Three locations
also furnish urgent care after usual office hours for 7 day a week
access to care. The group has 29 physicians in specialties of:
internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, & gynecology.
We have staff psychologists, dieticians, and social workers
available to help patients manage issues that may make it difficult
for them to take care of themselves.
About Humana:
Humana Inc. is committed to helping our millions of medical and
specialty members achieve their best health. Our successful history
in care delivery and health plan administration is helping us
create a new kind of integrated care with the power to improve
health and well-being and lower costs. Our efforts are leading to a
better quality of life for people with Medicare, families,
individuals, military service personnel, and communities at
large.
To accomplish that, we support physicians and other health care
professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the right
place for their patients, our members. Our range of clinical
capabilities, resources and tools – such as in-home care,
behavioral health, pharmacy services, data analytics and wellness
solutions – combine to produce a simplified experience that makes
health care easier to navigate and more effective.
More information regarding Humana is available to investors via
the Investor Relations page of the company’s web site at
www.humana.com, including copies of:
- Annual reports to stockholders
- Securities and Exchange Commission
filings
- Most recent investor conference
presentations
- Quarterly earnings news releases and
conference calls
- Calendar of events
- Corporate Governance information
About Harvesters–The Community Food Network: Harvesters
is a regional food bank and was Feeding America’s 2011 Food Bank of
the Year. Serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and
northeastern Kansas, Harvesters provides food and related household
products to more than 760 not-for-profit agencies including
emergency food pantries, community kitchens, shelters and others.
Agencies in Harvesters’ network provide food assistance to as many
as 141,500 different people each month. Harvesters, which was
founded in 1979, is a certified member of Feeding America, a
nationwide network of more than 200 food banks, serving all 50
states. For more information, visit www.harvesters.org.
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Humana: Marvin Hill, Corporate Communications,
mhill1@humana.com, 502-580-3950Harvesters: Gene Hallinan,
Communications Manager, ghallinan@harvesters.org,
816-929-3000Sunflower Medical Group: Kathy Stegeman,
heyheim@yahoo.com, 913-708-1361
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