Northwell Health Partners With Instacart to Expand Access to Nutritious Food for Patients and Staff
2024年7月17日 - 11:00PM
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Programs support maternal health, youth
nutrition education and employee wellness
Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system, and
Instacart (NASDAQ: CART), the leading grocery technology company in
North America, today announced a partnership through the Instacart
Health initiative that leverages Instacart’s platform and products
to expand access to nutritious food, inspire sustainable healthy
choices, and scale food as health programs to reach diverse
Northwell communities.
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Northwell Health will use Instacart
Health tools to support unique programs that address social
determinants of health (Credit: Northwell Health).
“Raising health is more than the care Northwell provides in our
hospitals and doctors’ offices. It’s also about how we raise up the
people in our communities and how we raise our expectations of what
health can be, which is why Northwell contributes more than $2
billion in community benefit annually,” said Debbie Salas-Lopez,
MD, MPH senior vice president of Northwell’s Office of Community
Wellness and Population Health. “The collaboration with Instacart
is part of our comprehensive community health effort and will
provide tools and resources to access nutritious foods for our
staff, patients and communities.”
Through the partnership, Northwell will use Instacart Health
tools to support unique programs that address social determinants
of health including access to healthy food and transportation.
“We believe that Food is Health. And it’s important to us to
meet the needs of the communities we serve, which is why we pursued
an Instacart partnership,” said Michael Dowling, president and CEO
of Northwell.
The first program to launch integrates Instacart Health tools
into Northwell’s Center for Maternal Health Maternal Outcomes and
Morbidity Collaborative (MOMS) so that moms-to-be who are food
insecure have improved access to fresh and nutritious food.
Northwell Health is particularly focused on addressing maternal
health in Black and Brown communities who have long-standing
disparities in maternal care. Using Instacart Health Fresh Funds,
category-specific online grocery stipends, and Northwell’s Healthy
Choices Storefront on Instacart, Northwell is providing moms-to-be
with nutrition guidance and support during their pregnancies.
“Instacart offers families across the country the convenience of
same-day delivery from their favorite stores, reaching over 98% of
U.S. households. By partnering with Northwell Health, we’re
leveraging our scale and Health tools to create impactful nutrition
access and education programs that help solve real community
challenges,” said Sarah Mastrorocco, vice president and general
manager of Instacart Health. “Studies show that a healthy diet
during pregnancy can greatly improve the health of both moms and
babies and reduce the risk of several common complications.1 By
offering our Fresh Funds stipends to give mothers more convenient
access to nutritious food, and consumer tools that make Northwell
Health’s expert guidance actionable, we’re supporting programs that
help make our communities healthier.”
For more information about Northwell’s community health
department, click here.
About Northwell Health
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care
provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals, about 900
outpatient facilities and more than 12,000 affiliated physicians.
We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro
area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our
communities. Our 87,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,900
employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician
Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re
making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for
Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical
professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of
Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of
Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our
more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow
us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn.
About Instacart
Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North
America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people
shop. The company partners with more than 1,500 national, regional,
and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery
and pickup services from more than 85,000 stores across North
America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible
for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the
retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart
shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their
own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a
suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power
their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize
brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean
insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from
category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to
connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of
purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to
increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for
consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving
health outcomes. For more information, visit
www.instacart.com/company, and to start shopping, visit
www.instacart.com.
1 National Institutes of Health. (2021, April 22). Healthy diet
before, during pregnancy linked to lower risk of complications, NIH
study suggests. Retrieved from
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/healthy-diet-before-during-pregnancy-linked-lower-risk-complications-nih-study-suggests
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