Medically Tailored Meals
Medically tailored meals help to meet the needs of program participants with health conditions that require specific diets such as heart disease, diabetes, and HIV. Programs that plan and prepare these meals can expand their reach and help those in need stay healthy. Learn more about medically tailored meals and best practices for adding them to your program’s menu.
Guides
- Nourishing Seniors Through Medically Tailored Meals — Opportunities and examples of
providing medically tailored meals - Food as Medicine Research Guides: Master List— Compilation of guides, studies,
news articles, and more from the Center For Food As Medicine
Best Practices
- Food Is Medicine— Resources to prevent and manage diet-related diseases and promote well-being through food and nutrition
- Food Is Medicine Briefing (YouTube)— 40-minute video of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services toolkit kickoff
- Implementing a Medically Tailored Meals Program (YouTube)— Network spotlight about contracting with health care plans in California to implement a medically tailored meals program
- California Food is Medicine Coalition— Providing nourishing medically
tailored meals and nutrition services to individuals with chronic and acute illnesses - The Medically Tailored Meal Intervention— Definitions, history, and standards for Medically Tailored Meals from the Food is Medicine Coalition
- Humana Well Dine— Meal program for eligible post-discharge or DSNP Humana members
- Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan— Pilot program to address nutritional needs of participants to prevent, manage, and treat diet-related illnesses
- Innovations in Nutrition Grant Initiatives — Presentation on Maryland's medically tailored meal program