Food is Medicine is an umbrella term for a variety of activities and services that respond to the critical link between nutrition and health. Services and activities may include medically tailored meals, prescriptions for healthy groceries or produce, individually tailored food packages and groceries, and culinary medicine and teaching kitchen programs. This webinar will explore a successful partnership between Ho’ola Farms, a nonprofit working to strengthen the local Hawaiian food system, and Kaiser Permanente. Attendees will learn how this collaboration strengthens the community and works to address social determinants of health, improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Attendees will gain insight into program design, care coordination, and implementation strategies that support a sustainable, scalable Food is Medicine model.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the core components of Food is Medicine programs.
- Explore key strategies for building and sustaining partnerships between healthcare providers and community-based organizations.
- Identify potential community partners in their own location or workplace to collaboratively address social determinants of health in the military families they serve.
