DispatchHealth, Instacart Partner to Deliver Food to Homebound Patients

HomeCare January 25, 2024
Hannah Wolfson

Companies join forces to allow DispatchHealth’s home health professionals to prescribe and deliver nutritious foods.

DENVER—Instacart has partnered with DispatchHealth in an effort to ensure homebound patients have access to nutritious foods. Using Instacart Health technology, DispatchHealth’s in-home providers can now prescribe food interventions as easily as they do traditional medications. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in the ongoing battle against the substantial impact of food insecurity on healthcare costs. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates food insecurity adds an annual expenditure of nearly $52 billion.

“Our patients’ well-being is closely tied to their environment, and we witness firsthand how social determinants like nutritional accessibility affect their overall health. We are literally in...

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