MedCity News October 29, 2019
California-based healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has launched a new initiative to ensure many of its members have access to healthy food. Called Food for Life, the program, announced Monday at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, will work with Calfresh, California’s supplemental nutrition assistance program, to find and enroll eligible Kaiser members.
While CalFresh provides enrollees up to $192 per month to buy food, the program is underused. Kaiser wants to help change that.
“Each day in America, there are approximately 37 to 39 million citizens who are going to bed without a meal,” said Kaiser chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson in a press briefing. “Here at Kaiser Permanente, we believe our portion of that maybe 3 million of our...
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