Health Care
Health care organizations can be great partners for nutrition programs. Learning how to foster ties within the health care sector in your community can help expand your services, reach more people, and achieve better outcomes for everyone involved.
- Association of Insurance Coverage of Medically Tailored Meals With Hospitalizations and Health Care Expenditures— Study finding that medically tailored meals are associated with lower health care utilization among patients with complex diet-related diseases (Hager et al., 2022)
- Nutrition Medicare Benefits— Information on eight Medicare-covered preventive services (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center)
- Health Literacy — Guidance for communication and steps to address health literacy (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center)
- Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System— Report (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020)
- Healthcare Guide to Contracting with CBOs— A deep dive into leading contracting practices to effectively and efficiently address health related social needs (Partnership to Align Social Care, 2023)
- The Roadmap to Community-Integrated Health Care— Resources for pursuing complex sustainability strategies and stronger partnerships with the health care sector (National Council on Aging)
- How Evidence-Based Program Providers and Accountable Care Organizations Can Work Together on Quality and Performance Improvement— Resource about how these partnerships can be beneficial (National Council on Aging, 2023)
- Updated Medicare Reimbursement Rule Addresses Health-Related Social Needs and Care Coordination— Resource about a new final regulation that allows for reimbursement for services that address a person’s health-related social needs (National Council on Aging, 2023)
- Community Care Hubs: Quality, Fidelity, and Compliance Expectations for Service Delivery Partners— Resource about ensuring CCH success (National Council on Aging, 2023)
- Community Care Hubs: What Evidence-Based Program Providers Need to Know— Resource about how participating in a network eases burdens and enables providers to serve more people (National Council on Aging, 2023)
- Resources for Developing a Community Care Hub— Resource guide (Aging and Disability Business Institute)
- Engaging Champions and Partners — Presentation on bridging health care and home and community-based services (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center)
- Healthcare Policy and Practice Opportunities for Senior Nutrition Programs (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center, 2019)
- Health Care Reform: Are We There Yet — Affordable Care Act modifications (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center, 2017)
- Marketing to the Health Care Industry — Considerations for tuning your value proposition (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center, 2017)
- Role of Social Determinants of Health — Perspectives from the health care sector (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center)
- Health Care Landscape: What We Are Doing and Why It Matters — Plans for all in health care integration (Meals on Wheels America, 2017)
- Transitional Care Outreach Project — Presentation from Senior Services Consortium of Ramsey County, Minnesota (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center)
- Current Trends in Healthcare and Social Care Partnerships — Webinar slides describing data and trends in health care and social care integration, and opportunities for enhanced partnerships (Nutrition and Aging Resource Center, 2025)
- Medicaid Opportunities for Evidence-Based Program Sustainability— Series of four 90-minute webinars about Medicaid programming and experiences from CBOs on their journeys to Medicaid reimbursement (free registration required to view the video) (National Council on Aging, 2024)
- Building Blocks for Participating in a Coordinated Network of Community-Based Organizations— Series of four 60-minute webinars that highlights different components to serve as an effective partner in a coordinated network (free registration required to view the video) (National Council on Aging, 2023)
- Analysis of Home and Community-Based Services Program Impacts— 16-minute webinar (ACL, 2021)