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The 2024 CHCF Central Valley Health Policy Survey

The 2024 CHCF Central Valley Health Policy Survey highlights significant healthcare challenges in California's Central Valley, including high healthcare costs, medical debt, and difficulty accessing mental and physical health services. The survey, conducted by the California Health Care Foundation in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, emphasizes the need for legislative action to reduce healthcare costs and improve provider availability. Environmental health concerns, such as extreme weather and air quality, are also prominent among residents.

Food-as-medicine startup Chiyo helps postpartum moms with nutrition after raising $3 million

Chiyo, a startup focused on postpartum nutrition, has raised $3 million to support new mothers with meal delivery services and nutrition advice. Founded by Irene Liu and Jennifer Jolorte Doro, Chiyo combines Eastern food therapy with modern nutritional science to offer stage-based and symptom-specific programs. The funding will enable Chiyo to expand its services, build a research database on women's health nutrition, and integrate its offerings with clinics and healthcare systems.

Nutrition Rx: Understanding the viability of ‘food is medicine’

The "Food as Medicine" initiative is gaining traction, focusing on integrating nutrition into healthcare to combat chronic diseases. This approach includes funding diet-related research, providing medically tailored meals, and addressing food insecurity. Programs supported by Medicaid and private insurers are showing potential benefits in disease management and cost savings. However, challenges include the need for more nutrition training for clinicians and addressing misinformation about diet.

Kroger Health teams up with meal delivery company on medically tailored meals for chronic conditions

Kroger Health is partnering with Performance Kitchen to offer medically tailored meals for individuals with chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. This initiative aims to provide nutritious, registered-dietitian-approved meals to improve health outcomes and reduce hospitalizations, supporting diverse dietary needs with culturally relevant recipes.

Medicaid Testing 'Food as Medicine' Program in Some States—How Could It Impact Health?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are testing a "food as medicine" program to integrate nutrition interventions into healthcare. Pilot programs in states like Massachusetts, Oregon, Arkansas, and North Carolina include food prescriptions, meal delivery, and nutrition counseling aimed at reducing healthcare costs and improving health outcomes.

Instacart pushing into food-as-medicine movement with partnerships

The article on Modern Healthcare highlights how Instacart is expanding its "food as medicine" initiatives through collaborations with major healthcare providers like Kaiser Permanente and Mount Sinai. Instacart is providing grocery stipends and tailored nutrition advice to patients, aiming to improve health outcomes by making nutritious food more accessible.

Digital health at the turn of 2024: Tracking developments along the innovation maturity curve

The Rock Health article analyzes major developments in digital health for 2024, highlighting the innovation maturity curve of key areas such as AI in healthcare, value-based care, and food as medicine. It explores how these areas are progressing, driven by research, venture funding, and partnerships, with food as medicine noted for its nascent but expanding role in addressing various health conditions through digital solutions.

‘Food Equity Can’t Be a Side Gig’: How Food as Medicine is Becoming A Core Team Capability

The article discusses the growing importance of the "food as medicine" movement within healthcare organizations, which are creating dedicated roles and teams to address nutrition and food insecurity. Examples include Elevance Health hiring a food as medicine director and Kaiser Permanente's $50 million commitment to food and nutrition security, aiming to improve health outcomes by integrating food-based interventions into their services.

Targeted scientific research projects to demonstrate effectiveness of ‘food is medicine’ in health care

The American Heart Association has announced $7.8 million in grants for 19 research projects to explore the effectiveness of "food is medicine" initiatives. These projects aim to incorporate healthy food into healthcare delivery to manage and prevent chronic diseases, particularly in underserved communities, and are supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, Kroger, Instacart, Kaiser Permanente, and Walmart Foundation.

Food Is Medicine: The Road To Universal Coverage – Health Affairs

This article discusses the critical role of integrating food-based interventions into healthcare to address the chronic disease epidemic in the United States. The "Food is Medicine" movement aims to incorporate medically tailored meals, groceries, and produce prescriptions into clinical care, particularly benefiting high-risk populations such as racial and ethnic minorities, rural Americans, and individuals with physical disabilities