Open Hand Atlanta Inc.

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“Open hand community nutrition programs include: a.in 2020, open hand provided 1,258,068 home-delivered meals and market basket meal bags to approximately 5,048 clients per our county contracts. Our service area for these senior meal contracts includes baker, barrow, bartow, bibb, calhoun, carroll, catoosa, chattooga, cherokee, clayton, cobb, colquitt, coweta, dade, decatur, dekalb, dougherty, douglas, early, fannin, fayette, floyd, forsyth, fulton, gilmer, gordon, grady, gwinnett, haralson, henry, jones, lee, miller, mitchell, monroe, murray, newton, paulding, pickens, polk, randolph, rockdale, seminole, spalding, terrell, thomas, tift, union, walker, walton, whitfield, worth counties. B.the prepared meals portion of the program provides for one, two or three freshly cooked therapeutic meals, combined with healthy snacks or supplements, to meet the daily nutrition needs of low-income men, women and children who are dealing with a critical, chronic, or terminal disease. Other qualifying individuals may include dependent children of any open hand client, regardless of their health status. Nutrition education is delivered on a regular basis with the meals, as well as in group and clinical settings. Menus are developed and products are selected by open hand's registered dietitian nutritionists, and include therapeutic and preferential menu options. C.open hand's market basket program provides a weekly supply of both nonperishable groceries and fresh fruit and vegetables to low-income, medically-eligible clients who are empowered to prepare their own healthy meals with nutrition guidance provided by open hand registered dietitians nutritionists. This accommodates a supply of fresh fruits and vegetables including more locally grown produce. D.in addition, open hand provided approximately 105,022 emergency nutrition supplements (ens), in the form of meal replacement snacks and nutrition supplements, to low-income, medically eligible men, women and children, often during extended waits for their health care appointments. Patients who have had dental procedures may also receive mechanical soft meals provided through this program. E.central to open hand's comprehensive approach to nutrition, clients are assessed at intake and offered consistent nutrition education by open hand registered dietitian nutritionists (rdns), which includes printed nutrition education materials and, depending upon their assessment, individual or group nutrition coaching sessions. These group sessions have a community or public health focus, and include topics such as portion control, healthy eating, hands-on food preparation, physical activity, and disease self- management. Client counseling sessions include individualized nutrition assessment, diagnosis, education, and goal-setting. Follow-up reinforcement is provided by open hand rdns, and may include monitoring of client health metrics, nutrition education, assessment of health goal progressions, referral(s) to additional support services, and/or phone consultations. F.open hand provided medical nutritional therapy (mnt) to 315 clients in 2020. Mnt is prescribed by a clinician, targets a specific medical condition, and includes a nutrition diagnosis, therapy and counseling services - all performed by open hand registered dietitians (rds). Designed by the american academy of nutrition and dietetics, mnt includes a specific plan of assessment, nutrition diagnoses, intervention, evaluation/monitoring, documentation, and communication with client's health care provider. This service is available to men, women and children who have a nutrition-sensitive chronic disease and who are committed to improving their health through better food choices and behavior modification. G.open hand is georgia's lead partner for the nationally acclaimed cooking matters nutrition education program - six weeks of classes utilizing an evidence-based curriculum originally designed by share our strength. In 2020, the open hand cooking”

“Good measure meals (gmm) open hand's fee-for-service social enterprise offers nutritious, gourmet- quality meal plans to people who wish to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension or obesity, and people looking to improve or maintain a healthy lifestyle through better nutrition. This program extends open hand's mission across the full socio-economic spectrum making an even greater impact on our community. In 2020, open hand made the strategic decision to pause good measure meals operations in march of 2020 to focus all of our resources on the needs of our medically-fragile open hand clients, which dramatically increased due to the covid-19 pandemic. Given that gmm only operated for close to three months in 2020, we served 682 clients a total of 54,455 healthy meals through this program. Nutrition services and wellness programming were also paused in march of 2020, though we did conduct 20 nutrition phone consultation sessions with a gmm registered dietitian advising gmm customers.”

“In 2020, open hand extended the reach of our comprehensive nutrition programming by achieving several key goals: a.open hand and good measure meals served a combined total of approximately 12,174 clients in 2020. This includes more than 1,385,696 home-delivered meals, meals provided in a congregate setting, as well as meal replacements/supplements. In 2020, our registered dietitians worked directly with 934 clients, providing extensive nutrition education ranging from the instruction on the nutritional value of the foods in their diet to calorie balance and diabetes management, conducting home nutrition assessments, and providing in-clinic medical nutrition therapy (mnt). B.the following programmatic milestones were achieved in 2020: 1.prepared meals program - helping our clients better manage their chronic disease by providing medically tailored meals is always a primary focus for open hand. In 2020, approximately 51% of our clients reported spending fewer days in the hospital, 72% reported improvement in at least one health indicator and 22% reported they are more easily able to take their medications as a result of receiving prepared meals. In 2020 our client survey focused on measuring the impact of our services. In 2020, 22% of survey respondents self-identified as persons living with hiv/aids, 63% were seniors served through our home delivered meal program and 32% were persons living with other chronic illnesses/disabilities. Of the clients that had a chronic condition, 26% reported they saw an improvement in their cholesterol levels, 29% saw an improvement in blood pressure, and 26% saw an improvement in blood sugar. 2.as a component of our medically tailored meal program, our home-delivered meal clients have access to open hand registered dietitian nutritionists (rdns) to consult with them about their nutrition and health as it related to their chronic disease. 70% of clients who met with our rdns found their consult with the dietitian to be very helpful. 3.market basket program - administered by open hand registered dietitian nutritionists, the market basket program is an innovative solution to reduce food insecurity, increase intake of healthy foods, and increase nutrition knowledge in high-risk adults in the atlanta area. Open hand volunteers deliver program participants weekly market baskets which include fresh fruit and seasonal vegetables, along with nutrition education materials and recipes relevant to the contents of that week's basket to encourage consumption. Open hand provided 70,384 market basket meals to an average of 121 clients each week in 2020. 4.promoting nutrition and healthy living among low income individuals and families - open hand's cooking matters program had three overarching goals in fiscal year 2020: to continue growing the direct education programmatic work across georgia, support the purchase of produce with a healthy retail pilot at wayfield foods, and to support the fresh marta markets with a full social marketing campaign in metro atlanta. In 2020, open hand exceeded our programmatic goals by teaching 48 cooking matters courses and reaching over 2,800 individuals and families with direct education. Additionally, open hand reached over 17,500 shoppers with the expanded healthy retail and the eat brighter campaign - a program piloted in 2017 with wayfield foods, a local grocery store chain. Open hand's social marketing campaign and nutrition education to support the fresh marta markets is estimated to have reached over 300,000 marta riders through the print and media campaign that was displayed on train and in station across atlanta. 5.fruit and vegetable prescription (fvrx) program - in an effort to reach the most vulnerable populations in our state, open hand expanded the fvrx program to south georgia. In conjunction with our metro atlanta cohorts, open hand conducted 14 cohorts, which included cooking matters classes conducted by open hand registered dietitian nutritionists. The evalua”