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Via Politico:
BALTIMORE – Fifteen years ago, Dr. Megan Tschudy didn’t want to know whether her patients had enough food. It’s not that she didn’t care: As a pediatrician working at a health clinic in East Baltimore, a part of town battered by decades of poverty and crime, she knew that undernourishment was probably connected to a whole host of health problems in the kids she was seeing. But as a pediatrician, she also knew there was nothing she could do about it. The problem might lie with school lunches, or neglect at home, or even an unpaid gas bill – all of which were miles from anything a doctor could treat.
Today, that same pediatric clinic in Baltimore screens every family that comes through the door for basic social needs that go way beyond medical care: Families are asked about food and housing, about childcare and access to transportation, along with their height, weight and blood pressure. Can they pay for the electricity needed to keep their diabetes medicine refrigerated or to power a Nebulizer to treat asthma, not to mention keep them warm at night?
If there’s a problem, she or one of her colleagues refers the family to a team of college student volunteers who match them with community resources that can help them solve it. Then the students follow up, follow up, and follow up some more.