The ProMedica health system in Toledo, Ohio, has opened a grocery store in a food desert with fresh foods, education and employment in a renovated facility, according to an article on the Health Facilities Management website.
The 5,000-square-foot grocery store is part of the ProMedica Ebeid Institute, a center ProMedica hopes will become a community hub “where healthy living takes root.”
Additional floors in the four-story institute will be renovated to offer health screenings and education, cooking and nutrition classes, job training and financial literacy to area residents.
A teaching kitchen — to open later this year in the next phase of the renovation — will make the institute distinctive. It’s one thing to buy healthful, fresh food and entirely another to learn how to use it in cooking, according to to a ProMedica official.
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