The Saratoga Hospital Community Health Center opened in 2013 with a mission to provide high quality integrated care to anyone, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. Practitioners there soon discovered as many as 30% of patients reported food access as their No. 1 need.
About three years after opening, Dr. Renee Rodriguez-Goodemote, the center’s medical director, and her team started a Nutrition Rx program that allowed families to try fresh, locally-grown organic vegetables while learning…
