{"id":128361,"date":"2025-12-12T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=128361"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:06:00","slug":"food-drive-brings-in-more-than-300-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/12\/12\/food-drive-brings-in-more-than-300-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Food drive brings in more than 300 meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>A food drive hosted by the Munroe-Meyer Institute Quality Council last month collected 540 pounds of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collected food was donated to the Food Bank for the Heartland in Omaha. 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