Community Benefit Mental Health and Nutrition Programs Respond to Community Needs
Mental Health Services Mental Health Solutions Available Close to Home Willowbrooke at Floyd, the organization’s 53-bed behavioral health hospital, provides inpatient adult psychiatric care to patients with a range of diagnoses such as depression and substance abuse. The facility also provides Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient programs for adults with psychiatric needs and hosts weekly on-site meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Nutrition Support
Partnership Helps Make Fresh Produce Easily Available Polk Medical Center, an affiliate of Floyd Medical Center, works with the Rockmart Farmers Market, which aims to make fresh produce available to members of the community at a central location. WIC participants can take advantage of a one-for-two credit system enabling them to further their food dollars while bringing nutritionally better options into their kitchens.
Food Drives Support Local Food Pantry Floyd supports the work of Rome Action Ministries through food drives and volunteer opportunities. In addition, one of the food pantries operated by Rome Action Ministries has focused its mission on working with Cancer Navigators, an affiliate of Floyd Medical Center, to make quality nutrition products available to cancer patients and their families. School Nurses Help Monitor Student Nutrition Both school systems offer summer nutritional support for students whose access to food is hampered when school is not in session. Floyd supports these efforts through donations and providing health care support at special nutrition distribution events. Floyd also manages the school nurse programs for Rome City and Floyd County schools, providing 17 school nurses who oversee the care of the systems’ 17,000 students.
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