Food insecurity is increasingly recognized as a clinical risk factor that drives utilization, destabilizes patient outcomes, and contributes to variation in performance across populations.
As value-based care strategies mature, leading organizations are moving beyond ad hoc food assistance toward structured, nutrition-integrated access programs designed to align support with patient acuity and risk.
This session walks through how health systems are building those programs, embedding registered dietitians, stratifying by risk level and creating clear pathways that connect food access to care outcomes and patient engagement.
Key takeaways:
- How food insecurity drives utilization risk, instability and quality variation across patient populations
- How nutrition-integrated access programs can be structured to match patient acuity and risk levels
- How registered dietitians embedded in access programs can strengthen engagement, equity and outcomes
