Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine
On Mission for All Floridians to experience the power of food is medicine.
Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine
On Mission for All Floridians to experience the power of food is medicine.
Interlinking nutrition and healthcare
Health & Nutrition are 2 Sides of the Same Coin
Imagine a Florida where Doctors write prescriptions for food and the patients get better. Food is Medicine (FIM) nutrition programs are a proven cost-effective health and medical treatment and money-saving tactic able to help resolve disease for patients and return a share of the savings to the Florida government with
Building Florida's Food Is Medicine Ecosystem
We Begin with the End in Mind
We believe All Floridians living with chronic or severe illness have the potential to improve their health and reduce their dependency on expensive health and medical care using food is medicine nutrition. We envision a Florida where medically tailored meals, nutrition and education become central tenets of our healthcare system for the treatment and prevention of disease. Join us.
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All Coming Together
The goal is to have a set of community-based organizations, hospitals, health and medical plans, food providers, all who have an array of models, medically tailored meals and protocols for the health of their clients in the Food is Medicine nutrition programs in Florida up and running. $1.6 Billion is the 10-year potential for this marektplace. Those with more experience mentor, train, and encourage the newer programs facing blocks and uphill challenges. We are here for each other.
To Build Food is Medicine into Healthcare
We are on a mission to make medically tailored meals and nutrition, education, and food is medicine nutrition tenets central to our health and medical care system to improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs for all Floridians living with chronic or severe illness.
There is hope. We are the hope.
How We Work
The Team to Raise the Bar
Research and Evaluation Experts
Research and Evaluation Experts
We are a coalition of people, businesses and organizations coming together in support of using food as medicine to impact health. We bring a concerted and disciplined approach to equip all community-based organizations to level up to Food is Medicine program quality, specifications and standards with education, credentialing, coaching and resources.
Research and Evaluation Experts
Research and Evaluation Experts
Research and Evaluation Experts
Food is Medicine programs are a proven cost-effective treatment and money-saving tactic able to help resolve the large Florida Medicaid burden and return a share of the savings to the Florida government. Interlinking nutrition and healthcare is a profitable area to explore.
Outcomes Driven
Research and Evaluation Experts
Outcomes Driven
Food is the biggest driver of preventable disease. Research now shows that Food is Medicine (FiM) programs save $6,300 on average per patient per year with a Journal of American Medical Society modeling study and a new clinical trial with randomized controls corroborates the findings.
Who We Are
Physicians
Researchers
Food is Medicine nutrition must be prescribed by physicians, healthcare workers, and health plans to bend the cost curve and drive gains in health and medical care which continue to accrue savings over years to come. Physicians start the demand cycle by referring patients to FiM programs such as medically tailored meals. Incentives include a share in the savings after patient health improves using food as their medicine.
Researchers
Researchers
An emerging body of FiM research has been published in the last decade. Corroborating findings from 2022-2023 suggest the most impactful Food is Medicine nutrition interventions are medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescriptions. National legal and policy experts from Center for Law and Policyat Harvard Law School, Buffalo Niagara Medical Complex Innovation Center, CalFiMC, UMass Medical are onboard to support Florida.
Lived Experience
Lived Experience
We listen. Patients with Lived Experience inform our conversations, planning and thinking. Over the next 10 years, hundreds of thousands of sick and poor will recover their health as insurance companies with Medicaid Advantage Care plans and Physicians refer high-cost Medicaid patients to a new treatment program proven by research, experience, and a clinical trial to save on costs.
Patients
Community-Based Organizations
Lived Experience
Florida has more elderly and disabled than most states. These two groups make up 20% of the pool of Medicaid enrollees yet use 62% of the funding. With a new treatment program proven by research, experience in nine other states, and a clinical trial to save on costs, people heal and get well. The new treatment is Food is Medicine programs: medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescriptions.
Insurers & Health Plans
Community-Based Organizations
Community-Based Organizations
Insurers and health plans experience lower spending on high cost for emergency healthcare utilization such as unexpected long-term hospitalizations and ER Visits, while benefiting patient quality of life. The National Strategy on Hunger, Health and Nutrition 2022 includes Food is Medicine programs and research in two of the five pillars of the strategy.
Community-Based Organizations
Community-Based Organizations
Community-Based Organizations
We are the caregivers. We are the charities and nonprofits, food banks and pantries, meal makers and box packers with giant drive through distribution events , or quiet at home delivery to the door. However you feed, feed them well. Food as the power to heal. We work together to share best practices to up our game to highest health impact.
Government
RDN's, Nutrition Educators & Health Coaches
Government
Health benefits from Food is Medicine nutrition programs accrue over time as do the healthcare utilization savings from fewer long term stays, hospitalizations or ER visits. Over 50 US House Representative & Senators back Food is Medicine. Florida Medicaid Waiver 1115 is a must have 5- year “demonstration” or test to operate Food is Medicine programs, evaluate and learn. We want to see HB 173 and SB 188 pass to support Medicaid savings returned to the State of Florida and health gains for patients.
Press
RDN's, Nutrition Educators & Health Coaches
Government
Press spreading the word about FiM impact and progress is essential to our work, involving more patients, more Physicians, more care givers. Food is Medicine programs funded by Medicaid Waivers in nine states are showing strong positive results: Lower spending on high health care utilization costs such as unexpected long-term hospitalizations and ER visits, while benefiting patient quality of life.
RDN's, Nutrition Educators & Health Coaches
RDN's, Nutrition Educators & Health Coaches
RDN's, Nutrition Educators & Health Coaches
When our patient's health is on the line, handing a box of food over is not enough. People need to find their "why?" Coaches enter here. People need to know what the food is doing inside there. Educators enter here. People need to know how to shop, prep, cook, eat, enjoy food thats healthy. Chefs enter here with their recipes, and cooking classes. People need to know what to eat, in what dose quantities, when, and in combination with what other foods, supplements, sleep, excercise regimens. RDN's enter here. We cannot help patients change their lives for better health without the whole community here.