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UW Health to screen for hunger, provide free meals for children

By Wisconsin State Journal  
   June 12, 2017

UW Health, which has joined other Madison-area health care providers in screening children for food insecurity, will become the first to ask patients of all ages about hunger next week. It will also start providing free meals for children during summer. “Individuals with food insecurity and chronic hunger have more poor health,” said Cassie Vanderwall, a clinical nutritionist and dietetic internship program manager at UW Health.

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