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

dwalters@glwd.org

Chad Balodis

Manager of Client Services

Ph: 212-294-8131

Fax: 212-294-8198

cbalodis@glwd.org

Lisa Zullig, MS, RDN, CSG, CDN Director of Nutrition

Ph: 212-294-8170

Fax: 212-294-8101

lzullig@glwd.org

Our Team