Implementing the Summer Food Service Program within the Healthcare Setting

Authors

Laura M. Plencner, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Margo Quiriconi, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Sarah Sentmore, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
Molly Krager, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow

Publication Date

2019

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Abstract

The Summer Food Service Program was established to ensure that children continue to receive adequate nutrition while school is out. This poster describes how the program was implemented in the Children's Mercy Kansas City healthcare system from 2016-2018.

MeSH Keywords

Food Service, Hospital; Food Supply; Hospitals, Pediatric

Keywords

Children's Hospitals; Food Insecurity

Disciplines

Community Health and Preventive Medicine | Pediatrics

Notes

Poster first shown at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Baltimore MD, April 24-May 1, 2019

Recommended Citation

Plencner, Laura M.; Quiriconi, Margo; Sentmore, Sarah; and Krager, Molly, "Implementing the Summer Food Service Program within the Healthcare Setting" (2019). Posters. 79.
https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/posters/79