![]() Structural-level implementation challenges included issues of food safety, subsidized food regulations, and patient privacy. Program-level implementation challenges focused on food and produce expectations. Partnership-level implementation challenges focused on issues of partnership scale and data collection, sharing, and analysis. Interviews suggest unique implementation challenges exist at all levels of food bank/healthcare partnerships including the partnership, program, and system levels. Detailed notes were taking during each interview, and immediately discussed with the complete research time to formulate broad implementation themes. All interviews were completed via Zoom and took between 30 and 60 min to completed. In total, six interviews were conducted with food bank/healthcare partnership leaders ( n = 4) and charitable food system experts ( n = 2) about their experiences of working with food bank/healthcare partnerships. Interview questions were tailored to each interview, but all focused on identify program components of the food bank/healthcare partnership and implementation barriers/facilitators of the partnership. ![]() Texas food banks with existing food bank/healthcare partnerships were identify through website review and support from Feeding Texas. ![]() The objective of this exploratory pilot study was to identify implementation challenges and facilitators of charitable food system and healthcare partnerships from the food bank perspective. Partnerships between charitable food systems and healthcare systems have been forming across the country to support individuals and families experiencing food insecurity, yet little research has focused on these partnerships, particularly from a food bank perspective. ![]()
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