Season Health Commits $5 Million in Partnership with Health Plans to Help 117 Million Americans Living with Nutrition Related Chronic Diseases and Food Insecurity

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Season Health, the main food-as-medicine platform designed to deal with continual situation administration at scale, as we speak introduced a dedication to additional advance the corporate’s imaginative and prescient of a world nicely fed. In partnership with well being plans, the corporate is committing $5 million to carry its proprietary food-as-medicine platform in addition to wholesome, reasonably priced, culturally related meals to communities throughout the nation.

As a part of this $5 million dedication, Season will co-sponsor its Local Kitchen Initiative in partnership with Territory Foods, designed to create pre-made meal kitchens that ship reasonably priced, clinically accepted and culturally related meals in native communities going through meals insecurity. Through this initiative, along with its meals companions, Season will assist native entrepreneurs set up or broaden group kitchens as a part of the corporate’s strategy to selling higher well being and making a world nicely fed.

In addition to the Local Kitchen Initiative, Season will companion with well being plans to sponsor pilots with 1,000 members with diabetes. The pilots will embrace:

• Six months of entry to Season’s platform for plan members with diabetes. This contains appointments with a registered dietitian, entry to Season’s accredited diabetes schooling program, and a clinically validated choice of recipes and pre-made meals, all delivered by an in-house achievement group by a partnership with Instacart.
• Funding $300 of free meals for each enrolled member.
• Measurement of well being outcomes together with A1c and BMI over the period of the pilot, by way of a number of strategies, together with distribution of free at-home lab testing. These blood assessments might be delivered to members’ doorsteps by a partnership with Kit; this program will each enhance the seize price of key scientific metrics, and assist members higher perceive their very own blood sugar ranges.

“The solely technique to clear up the diabetes and weight problems epidemic our nation is going through is with a food-as-medicine platform that empowers payors to mix all the disparate items that go into offering wholesome meals for his or her members, like SNAP advantages, meals OTC playing cards, post-hospital discharge meals, and so forth. At Season, we consider within the energy of meals to enhance the administration of continual circumstances and assist continued wellness,” stated Josh Hix, CEO, Season Health. “We’re on a mission to enhance well being and enhance entry to nutritious meals, and we consider these two packages will carry us nearer to our imaginative and prescient of a well-fed world.”

Ninety-six million grownup Americans, or one in three, have pre-diabetes, and round 35 million Americans have Type 2 Diabetes, in accordance with the CDC. Additionally, in accordance with the USDA ERS, 10.2% of Americans face meals insecurity. According to the CDC, diabetes is the costliest continual situation within the nation, with one out of each 4 U.S. healthcare {dollars} spent on caring for folks with diabetes.

Season Health’s evidence-based and consumer-friendly platform combines scientific care with reasonably priced, wholesome meals supply to advertise long-term well being for these dwelling with diabetes, prediabetes, gestational diabetes, continual kidney illness and extra.

About Season Health

Season Health is the main food-as-medicine platform that allows folks with continual circumstances to eat nicely and be nicely. Combining scientific vitamin care, meal suggestions, schooling, and meals supply into one complete answer, Season goals to assist extra folks see meals as a wholesome pleasure and create a world nicely fed. The firm has raised over $37 million in enterprise capital funding from traders akin to Andreessen Horowitz, LRV Health, and Company Ventures. Learn extra at seasonhealth.com.