Before January 2017, Rita Nguyen, MD, was “pretty much like any other academic hospitalist,” she says. In the hospital, she could provide excellent care to patients, but once they were discharged, many didn’t have the necessary resources to adopt healthier habits. Inspired by programs in other parts of the country, Dr Nguyen worked to establish at her hospital a food pharmacy, a program that allows physicians to prescribe healthy food to patients and gives them affordable access to those foods.

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