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STAY HEALTHY<br />
Nutrition & Food Pantry<br />
Provides hot meals at congregate dining centers and home delivered meals.<br />
Our Farmer’s Market program provides vouchers to purchase fresh fruit<br />
and vegetables at local farmer’s markets each summer. An Emergency<br />
Food Pantry provides three days’ worth of food to anyone in need every<br />
thirty days. By the numbers:<br />
people served 45,283 meals in<br />
497 congregate sites<br />
older adults received<br />
6<strong>14</strong> Farmer’s Market vouchers<br />
887<br />
older adults received frozen dinners in their<br />
home totaling 138,298 nutritious meals<br />
provided emergency food orders 1721<br />
400 700 1000 1300 1600 1900<br />
Community Impact: Older adults receiving proper nutrition will reduce<br />
hospital and nursing home admissions due to health issues relating to<br />
poor diet and prevent an increase in costs to Medicare and Medicaid.<br />
Our unique menu of tasty food options provides older adults with an<br />
opportunity to make their own healthy food choices, increasing the<br />
likelihood that they will eat the food we provide to them. In 20<strong>15</strong>, 93%<br />
of our home delivered meal clients said they would recommend our meals.<br />
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