Fresenius donates $150,000 to help deliver meals to patients with kidney disease
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Fresenius donated $150,000 to Food Is Medicine Coalition to expand access to medically tailored meals among patients with kidney disease, according to the press release.
“For people living with chronic kidney disease, a healthy diet and exercise is key to maintaining kidney function and preventing progression to kidney failure, but limited access to healthy foods or knowledge of how to manage a complex diagnosis can prevent individuals from pursuing a nutritious diet,” Dennis Kogod, president of Fresenius Kidney Care, said in the release. “We're committed to helping patients living with [chronic kidney disease] CKD approach their care holistically, and providing medically tailored meals can help improve their outcomes.”
Meals from Food Is Medicine Coalition are scientifically designed for individual patients. For example, the pre-made meals are created in a way that account for a patient’s diagnosis, adverse events from treatment and comorbidities.
If a health care professional or health care plan prescribed a referral, patients can have the meals delivered to their homes.
“We know that high-quality, nutrient-dense food is vital to the treatment and management of diseases. This funding is critical to accelerating our work in communities to refine, replicate and broadly scale the medically tailored meal model to ensure that people coping with kidney disease and other chronic illnesses have access to medically tailored meals, regardless of where they reside,” Alissa Wassung, executive director of the Food Is Medicine Coalition, said in the release. “Accrediting medically tailored meal providers throughout the U.S. will help expand this work with a systematic and research-based approach.”
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