October 21, 2025
Health Begins
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Fewer and fewer U.S. households can afford or access the food they need to be healthy. One emerging tool, Food Is Medicine (FIM), has broad bipartisan backing and strong potential to help address this problem. To fully realize its impact, however, it needs sustainable, scalable support. In this webinar, we highlight hospitals that are stepping into this gap and leveraging their influence and resources to support FIM implementation in their communities. These include public, private, and community-based hospitals forging deep community partnerships to accelerate some of the best emerging innovations in Food Is Medicine. Hear hospital leaders explain innovative program design and financing models to effectively improve health by providing essential nutrition. Strategies include community food hubs, grocer partnerships, novel ways to deploy hospital cafeteria food services, and intentional use of community reinvestment and total-cost-of-care funding to move care upstream.
Speakers:
- Kathryn Jantz, MSW, MPH, Consulting Director, Health Begins (host)
- Lauren Espy, MPH, Director of Equity and Community Programs, MLK Community Healthcare
- CEO, Kanbe's Markets, Maxfield Kaniger,
