GOD’S LOVE WE DELIVER Metastatic Breast Cancer Program 2015
Jan 14, 2016
GOD’S LOVE WE DELIVER
Metastatic Breast Cancer Program 2015
The mission of God’s Love We Deliver is to improve the health and well-being of men, women and children living with serious illnesses by alleviating hunger and malnutrition.
We are dedicated to cooking and delivering the specific, nutritious meals a member’s severe illness and treatment so urgently require.
Our Mission
For 30 years, God’s Love We Deliver has been the NYC metropolitan area’s only provider of nutritious, home-delivered meals for people who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves.
We have never wavered from our core principles. As being sick and hungry is a crisis that demands an urgent response:
• We deliver each client’s first meal on the next delivery day
• We never have a waiting list• We never charge clients for their meals
Core Principles
God’s Love is the only organization that:• Focuses on people with serious illnesses
• Cooks and home-delivers individually-tailored nutritious meals
• Provides services free of charge without regard to income
• Programs include:
Home Delivered Meals, Nutrition Services, HIV Grocery Bag Program, Community Partners/Managed Long Term Care
God’s Love Is Unique
• 6 Registered Dietitians (RDNs) on staff• Medical nutrition therapy and nutrition
education and counseling to • Clients• Families• Caregivers
• Unique Nutrition Plan• Our RDs work with clients to develop a unique
nutrition plans to help manage their illnesses, medications and side effects, and to promote wellness
• Tailored Meal Program• Menus are designed by our Dir. of Culinary Services,
our Director of Nutrition Services and our RDs
Nutrition: Our Signature Difference
Nutritional Care for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
Our Nutritional Care for Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients program supports metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients with enhanced services, including up to 21 home-delivered meals weekly, nutrition counseling, and referrals to supportive services.
• Meals can include:Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner combination
(including food for weekends)
• Deliveries can happen: Twice weekly or once a week
(Ex. Twenty-one meals for the week delivered on Thursdays)
Meals / Meal Delivery
Our Clients
We currently serve more than 300 women and men living with breast cancer -- approximately 25% of whom are living with metastatic breast cancer -- along with their caregivers and their children.
Our breast cancer clients are:• 97% female• 42% over 65, 39% 50-64, 18% 20-49• 38% Black, 29% White, 19% Latino, 3% Asian• 80% with Medicaid/Medicare, 9% with managed care plan, 11% with private insurance, ADAP Plus, no/unknown insurance
Who we Serve: Cancer Survey 2015
Breast21%
Lung15%
Colorectal14%
Lymphoma7%
Prostate5%
Ovarian4%
Liver4%
Other Cancers Comprised
30%
Diagnosis
In Treatment
IV Chemo36%
Radiation32%
Surgery29%
In Remission3%
Identify
Refer Nourish
Getting Started…
Identify
Indicators that a client requires immediate nutritional intervention include:
Recent hospital discharge without supports at home
Weight loss
Cognitive impairment or serious mental illness
Medically at risk
General fatigue
Difficulty chewing and/or swallowing
Difficulty walking, getting around, shopping or cooking limitations
Refer
We will work with you to provide:
Flexibility with delivery days and requested service adjustments
Customized menu based on diagnosis, medication interaction and dietary needs
Streamlined authorization process
Responsive customer service care
Nourish
All of our meals are low sodium and are freshly cooked with no preservatives, starters or fillers. We provide meals by addressing a combination of restrictions, resulting in almost infinite meal variety for clients.
Meal restrictions include:
Pork, Beef, Fish, Vegetarian
Sugar, Fat, Dairy
Renal, Minced, Pureed
Acid/Bland and Fiber/Gas
Client Services Department
The team is a staff of 9
Provides support services to clients, caregivers, providers of medical and social service agencies as well as the staff and members of Managed Long Term Care agencies.
150-170 new clients enrolled each month
All clients must provide us with some type of Emergency Contact to reach in the event of an emergency
Maintains partnerships with over 180 of medical and social service agencies across the city
Dorella Walters, MPA
Senior Director of Program Services
Ph: 212-294-8123
Fax: 212-294-8198
Chad Balodis
Manager of Client Services
Ph: 212-294-8131
Fax: 212-294-8198
Lisa Zullig, MS, RDN, CSG, CDN Director of Nutrition
Ph: 212-294-8170
Fax: 212-294-8101
Our Team