Join the Food as Medicine Movement
Recipe4Health (R4H) is a nationally recognized, award winning “Food as Medicine” model that integrates food-based interventions into healthcare settings to treat, prevent, and reverse chronic conditions; to address food and nutrition insecurity; and to improve health and racial equity.
We center equity and justice in the question
“Where does the food come from in ‘food as medicine’?”
Recipe4Health purposely prioritizes the sourcing and supply of regenerative and organic food grown by BIPOC farmers. By connecting healthcare demand to an agricultural supply of equity-based regenerative and organic “Food as Medicine”, R4H is a health multiplier that generates co-benefits to human health, local economic health, climate and soil health, and health and racial equity.
our winning recipe
Recipe4Health has five main ingredients
Recipe4Health (R4H) is a clinically integrated “Food as Medicine” model that prescribes patients Produce (regenerative and organic) + Health and Nutrition Coaching
Safety net health centers
Federally qualified health centers in Alameda County serve the most vulnerable patients. 83% of our patients are BIPOC and underserved
Food Farmacy
R4H prescription for 12 weeks of doorstep produce delivery fulfilled by a collaborative of local farms, including some BIPOC farms, that grow seasonal, nutrient-rich, organic produce with sustainable agricultural practices.
Behavioral Pharmacy
Community based health coaches provide group/individual health coaching options such as cooking classes and a Behavioral Pharmacy that addresses nutrition, movement, stress reduction and social connection to sustain behavior change
Medical Health Plan to cover services
CMS 1115 waiver allows Medicaid health plans to fund “Food as Medicine” as covered service free of charge to patients
R4H Training & Admin Hub
R4H provides clinical training to health care staff, EHR workflow integration, & Medicaid authorization & claims management to enable funding of services
The power of food
What is medically supportive food and nutrition?
A spectrum of food-based interventions that provide nutrient-rich, whole food used for prevention, reversal, and/or treatment of certain chronic health conditions and food/nutrition insecurity:
- Includes any fruit, vegetable, legume, nut, seed, whole grain, low mercury/high omega-3 fatty acid seafood, and/or animal protein
- Includes behavioral and nutritional coaching and education to amplify the effect of medically supportive food
- Prioritizes regeneratively and organically sourced foods
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