A partnership between digital health and nutrition company NourishedRx and healthcare fintech platform ProHealth Connect will provide additional personalized choices, including home-delivered food and nutritional support services, for 46 payers within ProHealth Connect’s network.
New York City Public Schools’ Office of Food & Nutrition Services (OFNS) received $200,000 from USDA and New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) for agricultural education programming, enhance local produce sourcing from marginalized producers and farmers, and learning gardens across the city’s public schools.
Combining local community programs and services with national technology and nutrition education, Partnership for a Healthier America’s (PHA) Good Food at Home program has reached 30 cities across the U.S., with a recent launch in Washington, D.C. The program, which offers a produce stipend via Instacart Health Fresh, showed “significant improvements in food security for families,” Jason Wilson, SVP, marketing and communications, PHA, told FoodNavigator-USA.
Following his experience witnessing the effects of ingredient-and-recipe meal kit services on consumer health during his tenure as Plated's former CEO, Josh Hix now leads Season Health as its CEO. The company collaborates with health plan benefits to introduce prescription food programs, enhancing access to nutritious meals for patients, as he explained to FoodNavigator-USA.
Partnership for a Healthier America’s Food Equity Opportunity Map uses census, income and health data to determine food accessibility in U.S. communities, and could help CPG companies finetune marketing at the zip code level for a bigger impact.