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Willowbrook hospital program addresses food insecurity while providing medical care to patients
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WILLOWBROOK, Calif. (KABC) Many people are still struggling to put food on the table during the pandemic, but a drive-thru program at a Willowbrook hospital makes sure its neediest patients get what they need.
Twice a month at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center, workers with the L.A. County Department of Health Services pack boxes of a week s worth of food for dozens of patients. The program is also offered at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Along with receiving medical care, part of the conversation between doctors and patients is how they re doing when it comes to food. Do they have enough?
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“We’re are the point where our system is being stretched and really, really challenged in a way that it’s never been before,” Dr. Tasha Dixon, the lead family physician at Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center in L.A. County. “We are over capacity at all of our facilities. It’s at the point where we are now having to be creative and shuffle our services, start to cancel those services that may not be as emergent for our patients.”