Food is Medicine Coalition

We are thrilled to see our FIMC colleagues from God's Love We Deliver sharing their research efforts with attendees at the American Society for Nutrition's annual conference Nutrition 2024 in Chicago! The future of nutrition is most certainly bright thanks to folks like Kelly V. Naranjo! #foodismedicine

American Heart Association's Health Care by Food will host a webinar, "Health Care by Food Common Measures in Food is Medicine Research" on July 18th from 4-5pm ET. Register 👉https://bit.ly/3WbUEoL

The NEJM Group recently published an article from our colleagues at the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Read the article, "Underestimated Challenges for Social Care Initiatives - Regulatory Compliance." Rachel Landauer! https://bit.ly/3XX5MHg

#HappyIndependenceDay on behalf of our agency partners serving nourishing food to people with chronic illnesses across the nation. 🍓🌽🫐

FIMC is so appreciative of the speedy consideration and advancement of H.R. 8816, the American Medical Innovation and Investment Act, which contains an updated version of H.R. 6780, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act, by the Committee today. By quickly advancing H.R. 8816 to the floor of the House of Representatives with an affirmative vote, the Committee on Ways & Means has already taken a critical step to expand access to Medially Tailored Meals (MTMs), bend the health care cost curve, and provide medically vulnerable seniors with healthy and delicious medically tailored meals in their homes. ✅FIMC urges a speedy passage of H.R. 8816 to advance equitable access to this lifesaving intervention!

Integrating food is medicine interventions into traditional health care just makes sense. In a recent article in Health Affairs, authors Hilary Seligman and Rocco Perla note that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have two timely opportunities to improve access to food-related benefits in Medicare Advantage. In doing so, CMS could “give providers the autonomy to include healthy food in their treatment plans when clinically appropriate and help relieve the burden and cost to clinical practices of navigating patients to these resources.” Read more below.

We are thrilled the #MTMBill is being marked-up in Committee today! Huge thanks to Representatives Jason Smith, Richard Neal, Vern Buchanan and Lloyd Doggett for their support and to Representatives Jim McGovern, Nicole Malliotakis, Dwight Evans, Chellie Pingree, and Brian Fitzpatrick for their hard work on this bill!

Registration is open! The Root Cause Coalition's 2024 National Summit will be held October 6-8 in Baltimore, Maryland. ⁠ ➡️Details and registration. https://bit.ly/3XoD5mw 

Today, we commemorate Freedom Day, when news of emancipation reached enslaved African Americans in Texas almost two years after Lincoln’s proclamation. Today, we celebrate and uplift the history and legacy of Black culture. Because food is at the heart of all we do, we offer these resources to deepen our knowledge of food’s cultural significance and maximize both flavor and joy on this day. https://bit.ly/3R1AgDC 

We are thrilled FIMC agencies Community Servings, God's Love We Deliver and Project Open Hand were among those who attended the American Heart Association’s inaugural Health Care x Food Grantee and Collaborator meeting.     These agencies are among those awarded funding from the AHA as part of their Health Care by Food Initiative. This research will further demonstrate the effectiveness of #foodismedicine in health care.