Health Impacts of Health System Implementation of a Food-as-Medicine Strategy

AJMC March 10, 2025
Sarah D. Ronis, MD, PhD, Holly Hartman, PhD

This article describes the reach of a Food-as-Medicine strategy implemented by a regional health care system and its impact on adult participants’ cardiometabolic risk factors.

ABSTRACT

Objectives: To describe a regional health system’s experience with medically tailored groceries (MTG), focusing on program reach and effectiveness as determined by observed within-person changes in cardiometabolic measures.

Study Design: Case study including individuals aged 18 to 79 years referred by an ambulatory health care provider to a single regional health system’s MTG program from April 2020 through September 2023.

Methods: Demographics, clinical characteristics, and cardiometabolic measures (blood pressure [BP], weight, body mass index [BMI], and hemoglobin A_1c [HbA_1c]) were abstracted from electronic health records. Descriptive and bivariate analyses evaluated differences in demographics and...

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