Medi-Cal and other programs are testing food prescriptions that advocates say could improve chronic conditions, lower health care costs and reduce hunger.
in 2019 has evolved into California’s most successful medically supportive food program that is integrated into the county’s healthcare system.
Chen believes the testing across California is an important stage to make the services a permanent benefit under Medi-Cal: “Any innovation starts with fragmentation, because it’s a 1,000 flowers bloom approach… You want to create enough openness because otherwise, it’s just a top down approach, which never works.”
“I remember opening the fridge and seeing only celery and peanut butter and my mother telling me we were on a ‘special diet’. I did not realize at the time we were food insecure,” said Assemblymember, an Oakland Democrat who proposed this bill. “Too many Californians, particularly Californians of color, are living with largely preventable chronic conditions.”
on hunger, nutrition and health that prioritizes “food is medicine” interventions including food prescriptions.One successful local program is in Solano County, where Rich Oliver drives a colorful box truck painted with crates of fruits and veggies to clinic parking lots during the week.
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