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.
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We Begin with the End in Mind, You!
We believe All Floridians suffering with chronic conditions or diet-related diseases have the potential to improve their health and reduce their dependency on expensive health and medical care using food is medicine . We envision a Florida where produce Rx, medically tailored groceries Rx, medically tailored meals, and clinical nutrition pantry stocking plus care, health-trackers, counseling and education render health restored for millions. Are you on board?
Restoring Health Saves $ Billions
We need to think bigger to solve bigger problems. Collaboration is the key to build our FIM marketplace through our FIM movement. Each person can add to either end of the equation. Together we build the demand that drives the rising supply solutions. As we de-risk disease using food is medicine, we reduce risk of outcomes like early death, heart attack and stroke. Healthcare costs are saved, with 2-3 fewer Emergency Room Visits per patient enrolled in FIM per the JAMA research and Pleasant Street FIM with UF Health in Gainesville, FL.
Together We Can Heal
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTERVENTION
We know access is not enough to render health.
Belonging is one key to healing through healthy food adoption.
We need to learn, find our why, gain new kitchen skills, try new foods in new recipes, change our lifestyle, and seed tiny habits to take root over time. Our Florida FIM programs are a 6-month behavioral health intervention for the whole family. To restore their health, with new-found joy, Floridians from Gainesville to Miami are using 5 Factors in
Florida FIM Behavioral Health Intervention in HB 1315 / SB 1470.
- Counseling & Coaching / motivation to habit change
- Education & Cooking Classes / FIM, Metabolism & Nutrition classes ,Teaching Kitchens, Tastings & Recipes
- Belonging / Journey taken over 6 months in community of fellow lifestyle change-agents
- Evaluation + Health Tech / Track before + after biomarkers for understanding "what's going on in there?"
- Food / Protocols mapped to the specific disease. Medically tailored groceries, produce Rx, medically tailored meals, and clinical nutrition pantry stocking are evidence-backed modalities proven in scientific literature to render health outcomes or cost savings.
There is hope. Health outcomes prove it.
Health Outcomes Driven
Research and Evaluation Experts
Research and Evaluation Experts
If there were no health outcomes changed, it was not Food is Medicine. It was just food."- Maura Plante, Co-Founder
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 (research) and 2
If there were no health outcomes changed, it was not Food is Medicine. It was just food."- Maura Plante, Co-Founder
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 (research) and 24 clinical trial with randomized controls under AHA HealthCare by Food portfolio will corroborats the findings. If you do not have health outcomes, we can help you get there.
Research and Evaluation Experts
Research and Evaluation Experts
Research and Evaluation Experts
CEO of Your Own Health.
Embrace Evaluation and Accountability at every level: from program to individual client.
Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute is the National Network of Excellence is the anchor. FL H&N C is one of 3 regional networks of excellence under Tufts Food is Medicine Institute NOE.
Our Florida Food is Medicine prog
CEO of Your Own Health.
Embrace Evaluation and Accountability at every level: from program to individual client.
Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute is the National Network of Excellence is the anchor. FL H&N C is one of 3 regional networks of excellence under Tufts Food is Medicine Institute NOE.
Our Florida Food is Medicine programs are tracked in data dashboards. Biomarkers move. Health improves. Health Tracking is a guide to what is going on inside. FIM is cost-effective treatment and money-saving tactic per Tufts Food is Medicine Institute research banks. Interlinking nutrition and healthcare is a profitable area to explore.
The Team to Raise the Bar
Research and Evaluation Experts
The Team to Raise the Bar
FIM Experts with protocols, programs, networks proven to reverse disease stand by to help you do the same!
We are a coalition of 2,500+ people, businesses and organizations coming together in support of using food as medicine to impact health. We stage the 4th Annual FL FiM Symposium, 9 Movers & Shakers Webinars a year, Farms to FIM Clie
FIM Experts with protocols, programs, networks proven to reverse disease stand by to help you do the same!
We are a coalition of 2,500+ people, businesses and organizations coming together in support of using food as medicine to impact health. We stage the 4th Annual FL FiM Symposium, 9 Movers & Shakers Webinars a year, Farms to FIM Clients Quarterly Seminars and Culinary Medicine Tracks. We bring a concerted and focused effort to equip all to level up to Food is Medicine.
Florida is Implementation Ready
Regional Networks of Excellence
Milken Institute Feeding Change's Food Rx Stakeholder map is the model Florida Health & Nutrition Coalition implemented across 9 AHCA regions of Florida. 100% coverage.
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The Coalition. 2,500+ FLorida Food Rx STakeholders
Payers & Health Plans
Payers & Health Plans
Funding & Coverage
Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance, VA, IHS, and Philanthropy
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.
Patients
Payers & Health Plans
We listen.
Diet-related health need and may include nutrition security related need.
Patients with Lived Experience inform our conversations, planning and thinking. Florida has more elderly and disabled suffering from chronic diet-related conditions than most states. These two groups make up 20% of the pool of Medicaid enrollees yet use 62% of the funding. Over the next 10 years, hundreds of thousands of sick and poor will recover their health as Physicians refer patients to a new treatment disease management plan proven by research, experience and the patients overcoming to revesrse their disease.
We are for you!
Physicians
Health-Care Providers
Physician, PA, NP, Pharmacists, Dietitian, Nurse, CHW to diagnose, screen, and monitor health outcomes.
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Food is Medicine nutrition is prescribed treatment for disease by physicians, clinical 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 groceries for Diabetes Type 2 patients. Incentives can include a share in the savings after patient health improves using food as their medicine.
FIM Facilitators - Community Based Organizations
Coordinate FIM Program, Payment Modality, Data Collection, Administration and Oversight
Community Based Organizations, Pharmacists and Technicians, FIM Company
We are the caregivers. Our own patients with Lived Experience inform our conversations, planning and thinking as we are the charities and nonprofits who love our clients. Health coaches, food 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 has the power to heal through our love. We work together to share best practices to up our game to highest health impact.
FIM Facilitators - RDN's, Nutrition Educators & Health Coaches
Coordinate FIM Program, Motivation, Habit Change, Nutrition Education, Culinary Medicine, Kitchen Skills, Recipes and Menus Oversight
RDN, Nutrition Educators EFNEP, ACLM, Community Health Workers, Peers, Food Coaches, Health Coaches
When our patient's health is on the line, handing a box of food over is not enough. People need a lifestyle change over time. 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.
Evaluators & Researchers
Health Outcome Analysis and Evidence
University Nutrition PhD's, FIM Facilitator, Academia, Government agency, Payers, Pharmacists data
FIM research is steep and deep by Nutrition PhD's for over three decades. Dr. Dary Mozaffarian's Food is Medicine Institute informs all Florida's evaluation work and our 2026 FL FIM Bills Pilot, from the world's best at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Common measures, benchmark measurement tools, validated surveys and cross-corroborating evidence allows for metanalysis across the field from 2017-2023. National legal and policy experts from Center for Health Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, AHA, Buffalo Niagara Medical Complex Innovation Center, CalFiMC, FIMC, NPPC, UMass Medical and evaluation PhD's at UF/IFAS are all onboard to support Florida FIM.
Policy Makers & Advocates
Policy Makers & Advocates
Policy Makers & Advocates
Reimbursement, Covered Benefit, Anti-Kick Back and Privacy Regulation
Federal, state, and local level, Trade Associations, Patient Advocates, Nonprofits, Florida Voices for Health
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.
Farms & Food Production
Policy Makers & Advocates
Policy Makers & Advocates
Wholesale Food & Farmers
Farmer, Grower, Packer, Aggregator, Distributor
Align, connect, and activate Florida farm businesses (packer/hubs/food suppliers/local farmers) with new revenue/income streams for their business at full fair market value by connecting with our food is medicine program clients in our regional networks of excellence. Share Florida Farm products rendering health in our clients with FL farmers, packers, enterprises who sell through to the entire East Coast trucking routes: Maine to Florida.
Food Provider
Policy Makers & Advocates
Payment System Provider
Food for FIM Intervention and Purchasing Data
Grocery Store, Retailer, FIM Company like NourishRx, Community Based Organization, E-Commerce marketplaces, Healthy SNAP Cards, Prepaid PRx Cards like Fresh Connect from About Fresh, Shopping Companion Apps and label readers like Health-Friendly or Sifter
Payment System Provider
Health Data System Provider
Payment System Provider
Payment Processing
Bespoke system, Retailer Loyalty program, FIM Card, InComm, FIS, digital wallets and prepaid card systems
Have options for how you track funds allocated by client and program level down the zipcoade and grocery store purchases. Redemption, usage, what purchased are info available on data dashboards for real time view of program uptake.
Health Data System Provider
Health Data System Provider
Health Data System Provider
Health Related Data Hosting
Electronic Health Records Provider, EPIC, Unite Us, FIM Facilitator System, Pharmacy Management systems, HIPPA compliant, cyber security
Consumer wearables maintain own consent forms and trackable data. Telehealth consents include customers facing data. Data roll ups and dashboards of health outcomes for enrolled patients at 4 points in time, start, end, end plus 6 months, end plus 12 months. .