Aurora Medical Center – Bay Area is taking action on the community needs assessment to increase options for healthy nutritional offerings. Members of the Aurora Bay Area leadership team volunteered to participate in a “recipe for success” program during a local mobile food pantry event in August 2023.

"When we learned some of the healthy food options at food pantries weren't being consumed because community members didn't know how to prepare the ingredients, we knew we could take action," explains Ed Harding, President at Aurora Bay Area.

The hospital’s Food & Nutrition department prepared a recipe that is easy to make. Teammates took the prepared dish to the mobile food pantry and handed out a sample along with the recipe card to more than 400 people.  

“The samples and recipes were well received by those attending the event,” says Harding.

 Aurora Bay Area will be at two more mobile food pantry events in fall 2023.