5.22.20
At God’s Love We Deliver, we follow a research and evidence-based approach to feeding people with serious and/or chronic illness. We know that people don’t only need food, rather, they need individually tailored meals that consider the many challenges they face. We provide medically tailored meals (MTM), an effective combination of medical nutrition therapy from Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and healthy meals customized to a client’s medical conditions. Research from across the country has proven that this act of tailoring each meal to meet a client’s specific medical diagnosis works. In fact, it not only improves a client’s health outcomes, but it also keeps clients out of the hospital and improves food security and healthy eating behaviors, all the while dramatically reducing their healthcare costs.
The research we describe below has been completed by God’s Love and peer MTM agencies across the country.
Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
New research shows that medically tailored meals are associated with positive health outcomes and lower costs of care for patients with chronic and serious illness. The study demonstrates the power of MTMs if implemented nationwide: 1.5M fewer hospitalizations and a net cost savings of $13.6 billion in the first year.
God's Love We Deliver
God’s Love We Deliver collaborated with the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health to analyze the impact of food insecurity and the provision of food and nutrition services on health outcomes among people living with HIV.
Read the fact sheets below:
Community Servings - Boston
In a retrospective cohort study using information from the Massachusetts All-Payer Claim database, Community Servings and researchers at the UNC Chapel Hill examined healthcare costs for MTM recipients.
Community Servings - Boston
Community Servings and UNC Chapel Hill researchers compared the healthcare costs of three groups of dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in Massachusetts: recipients of MTM, recipients of nontailored meals and those receiving no meal intervention.
Project Open Hand - San Francisco
Project Open Hand partnered with UCSF to survey MTM recipients with Type 2 diabetes and/or HIV on how MTM impacts their disease management and health behaviors.
MANNA - Philadelphia
MANNA investigated inpatient and emergency department healthcare costs among MTM recipients and nonrecipients.
Project Angel Heart - Denver
Using data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database, Project Angel Heart examined the healthcare costs of Project Angel Heart clients before and after receiving medically tailored meals.
9.26.24 / Nutrition
This September and throughout the year, we encourage you to follow our food safety guidelines to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.
God's Love We Deliver receives accreditation from the Food Is Medicine Coalition!
9.16.24 / Clients
Dear Community, We hear all the time from clients how much our medically tailored meal program improves their health and well-being. Whether it’s receiving a birthday cake on their special day, or opening the door to a…
