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A new study published this week by the Food as Medicine Institute at the The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University shows that, while diet quality has improved slightly between 1999 and 2020, significant disparities exist and the proportion of American adults with an ideal diet remains extremely low, at 1.58%. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food as Medicine Institute, said: “While we’ve seen some modest improvement in American diets in the last two decades, those improvements are not reaching everyone, and many Americans are eating worse. Our new research shows that the nation can’t achieve nutritional and health equity until we address the barriers many Americans face when it comes to accessing and eating nourishing food.” At Season Health, we are working to address the barriers that prevent Americans from accessing food and nutrition care. Through our tech-powered platform, we are able to provide clinical care and improve nutritional and health equity — delivering food to every zip code in the US via local grocery stores and our medically-tailored meal partners. We invite you to read the article below and reach out to us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com to discuss how we can improve nutritional equity for your patients while improving their health outcomes. #foodasmedicine #nutrition #registereddietitian https://lnkd.in/gpCAnnzr

Birth complications are continuing to rise in the US, with increasing calls to manage this national crisis. According to the NIH, nutrition is the main determinant of fetal development, with malnutrition linked to complications ranging from preeclampsia to preterm delivery. Providers across the country are challenged to find scalable ways to connect their patients to nutrition counseling covered by insurance and support patients in accessing healthy foods throughout their pregnancies. Season Health partnered with Medical Associates Clinic—a multi-specialty integrated payer-provider in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin—to deliver a clinical nutrition intervention for patients experiencing high-risk pregnancies. We are proud to share that through our program, patients experienced improved outcomes, including a decrease in NICU stays and pre-term births Read our case study by clicking below and reach out to us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com to discuss clinical nutrition interventions for your patients experiencing high-risk pregnancy. https://lnkd.in/gyve_avi #highriskpregnancy #foodasmedicine #nutrition

For Food is Medicine (or Food as Medicine) to scale, it must be grounded in the larger context of a patient’s health-care journey. Food Is Medicine care goes beyond the provision of healthy food and includes nutrition and medication plans, as well as lifestyle and behavior changes. Learn more about the opportunities for the future of FIM care from the Milken Institute in this report, published this week. #foodismedicine #foodasmedicine #nutritioncare https://lnkd.in/e2YpMknP

The Food as Medicine movement is gaining momentum, particularly around tech-enabled nutrition support, according to this recently published report from Rock Health. Here are our top two takeaways from the report, along with Season Health's approach for solving these challenges. 1. Consumers want to eat healthier, but need guidance: According to the report, 50% of consumers find it hard to understand what foods are best for their health and 68% receive conflicting information about what foods they should eat or avoid. How do we solve for this at Season? Through personalized nutrition care from our nationwide network of Registered Dietitians. 2. Payers want to control rising costs of diet-related disease: Rock Health reports that payers are grappling with the costs of treating the nearly 50% of Americans with diet-related disease while addressing rapidly increasing food insecurity, which is now the reality in 12.8% of U.S. households. How do we solve for this at Season? Our programs allow payers to drive behavior change in their patient populations by shifting patients’ relationship with food, improving health outcomes and quality of life, and offering an alternative to expensive medications like GLP-1s. Read the full report below and reach out to us to discuss how we are connecting the dots and driving outcomes by pairing clinical guidance with tech-enabled access to food for patients nationwide. Email us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com #foodasmedicine #registereddietitian #nutritioncare https://lnkd.in/gfy6cBxi

🤝 Meet Dan. After years of on-again, off-again weight loss and challenges managing both pre-diabetes and diabetes, Dan joined Season Health and connected with his registered dietitian, Victor. With Victor’s support and clinical expertise, Dan was empowered to make shifts in both his mindset and his eating habits, leading to sustained weight loss, management of his diabetes, and most importantly — optimism about his future. At Season, every patient receives this type of expert, compassionate, evidence-based care. With access to our nationwide network of registered dietitians in addition to medically-tailored meals and groceries, patients like Dan have exactly what they need to improve their health outcomes and change their lives. Watch Dan’s full story below. Email us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com to support your patients like Dan. #foodasmedicine #nutritioncare #registereddietitian 

Season Health is proud to be a Praia Health Ecosystem Partner, providing an accessible, comprehensive Food-as-Medicine program for patients through the Praia Health Consumer Platform. Learn more about Praia here: https://lnkd.in/g5Z9dxxc #foodasmedicine #clinicalnutrition #registereddietitian

The Season Health team is headed to the Food as Medicine Summit in Chicago tomorrow and Wednesday. We're proud to be a Knowledge Partner of the event as we collectively move Food as Medicine from research to action and discuss how to leverage partnerships as we scale this work. If you're headed to the conference, mark your calendars: Partnering to Study Food-as-Medicine’s True Impact Tuesday, May 21 at 4:50 p.m. This dynamic 15-minute conversation will feature Season Health CEO Josh Hix and Jessica Rigler, Staff VP Population Health & Innovation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. Together, Josh and Jessica will walk through the partnership process, presenting key insights from our partnership journey – including our successes, challenges overcome, essential points of collaboration, and demonstrated clinical impact. If you'll be at the Summit and would like to connect, email us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com #foodasmedicine #clinicalnutrition #diabetescare https://lnkd.in/dweft9W

Season Health is a proud sponsor of tomorrow’s Arizona State of Reform conference, and we are looking forward to connecting with practitioners, thought leaders, and policymakers for a unified conversation about healthcare. Headed to the conference? Join us for a panel at 1 p.m., Increasing Health Equity Through Population & Community Health, which includes Season’s VP of Business Development, Erik Meek. Erik will be joined by Seth Dubry, MD, Melissa (Rutala) Kotrys, Jessica Yanow and Cameron Adams in a discussion about upstream solutions to addressing health equity and population health - including accessibility to food-as-medicine. Reach out to us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com if you would like to connect at the conference. #foodasmedicine #healthpolicy #clinicalnutrition https://lnkd.in/g887ewtY

Just published: Check out the interview below with Season Health CEO Josh Hix, featured on the Healthcare Rebel Alliance blog. Josh talks through Season's origin story and how we are aiming to shift the healthcare system from the inside out through food as medicine. Thanks to Nick Soman for the conversation. #foodasmedicine #clinicalnutrition

Are you headed to #ATANexus in Phoenix this weekend? Mark your calendars: Season Health CEO Josh Hix will be speaking on a panel on Monday at 1 p.m. titled, “Nourishing Virtually: Technology’s Vital Role in Food as Medicine and Food Equity.” The session will explore innovations in transforming efforts towards achieving food equity to help ensure everyone has fair and equal access to nutritious food options, regardless of socioeconomic status or geographic location. Moderated by Jenny Poth, the panel will also include Michelle McRae of Instacart and Jason Langheier MD, MPH of Foodsmart. Josh, Michelle and Jason will will share groundbreaking initiatives aimed at improving access to nutritious food, harnessing data to illuminate the efficacy of food as medicine and leveraging technology to address systemic challenges in food distribution and health outcomes. We’re looking forward to contributing to this conversation that focuses on the crossroads where technology integrates with healthcare. Are you attending the conference and/or interested in how Season Health combines virtual clinical care with technology to drive health equity? Reach out to us at partnerships@seasonhealth.com to connect! https://lnkd.in/gxUN3zaY #foodasmedicine #telehealth #foodismedicine