Food as medicine? Acadiana doctors to start prescribing fruit and veggies
Through a new program, 600 families will receive debit cards loaded with $40 each month, for six months, which they can use to purchase fruits and vegetables.
Through a new program, 600 families will receive debit cards loaded with $40 each month, for six months, which they can use to purchase fruits and vegetables.
The Rapides Parish Public Library system hopes telehealth can expand access to medical care for residents of Glenmora and other towns like it across the rural parish.
Louisiana’s perennially poor health rankings can be blamed on poverty, childhood trauma and a lack of investment in women’s health, according to a report for the LA40by30 initiative.
Food assistance data shows that at least a fifth of Acadiana residents can’t afford to feed themselves and their families.
Lafayette Parish government scrapped plans to increase the public health unit’s tax rate, complicating the service’s efforts to fill nursing vacancies.
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