Medically Tailored Meals
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English - February 24, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 9.16 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGovernment healthcare policy health policy health care vermont policy public health population health food policy diet nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode we welcome David Waters, CEO of Community Servings, to our show. Community Servings is a Massachusetts-based Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) program that is also a leader in the national Food is Medicine Coalition.
Community Servings was founded in 1990 to serve local Dorchester and Roxbury residents struggling with HIV / AIDS. It is now a regional organization serving 15 different meal plans to 2,300 patients at a time. You may have heard them mentioned in previous discussions not only for their role in MTMs, but also the Massachusetts State Food Plan. You can access that plan from the Food is Medicine Massachusetts coalition.
As referenced in this episode, there are a lot of resources out there on Medically Tailored Meals. Here are some highlights:
Special thanks to Marydale DeBor of Fresh Advantage LLC who is working with Bi-State on our MTM project and helped arrange this interview.