patients needing money/food

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

When our patients come in for eval, they are here for several hours. We tell

them in advance to be prepared to be at the center for lunch and to either bring

something to eat or they can go to our cafeteria. The economy has hit our

population hard and we are running into more and more instances where patients

don't bring food and do not have any money to get anything. More recently, they

also tell us they do not have enough gas money to return home (some of them

travel for hours to get here).

Has anyone else run into this, and if so, how are your centers handling it?

Thanks,