The Medical Food Pantry at Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC is a partnership of the Brody School of Medicine, Vidant Medical Center, the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina that provides emergency shelf stable foods to patients of Vidant and ECU who screen food insecure. Eastern AHEC is the training partner. Patient education materials, as well as a description of the emergency bag contents for “healthy”, “carb controlled” and “low sodium” diet prescriptions, are available at: Medical Food Pantry handouts.
Submitted by: Kathryn Kolasa