\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Shapiro administration visited Ephrata in Lancaster County to highlight Governor Josh Shapiro’s proposed “Food is Medicine” pilot program, which aims to improve health through nutrition. Department of Human Services Secretary Dr. Val Arkoosh visited the Community Hive, a food pantry and social services center, to discuss the initiative.The program aims to improve health and lower costsThe program is designed to provide nutritious and medically tailored meals to Medicaid recipients with chronic health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. The Shapiro administration said “Food is Medicine” programs have been shown to reduce hospital visits, decrease health care costs, and improve individuals’ overall health and quality of life. “It’s extremely important for those individuals to have access to healthy food to maintain their health. As we all know, healthy food is really expensive right now, and this Food is Medicine program would bring extra funding to help those folks maintain healthy eating habits,” Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh said. Funding proposed in the state budgetThe governor’s proposed budget includes $900,000 in state funding for the “Food is Medicine” program.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tEPHRATA, Pa. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The Shapiro administration visited Ephrata in Lancaster County to highlight Governor Josh Shapiro’s proposed “Food is Medicine” pilot program, which aims to improve health through nutrition. <\/p>\n Department of Human Services Secretary Dr. Val Arkoosh visited the Community Hive, a food pantry and social services center, to discuss the initiative.<\/p>\n The program aims to improve health and lower costs<\/strong><\/p>\n The program is designed to provide nutritious and medically tailored meals to Medicaid recipients with chronic health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. <\/p>\n The Shapiro administration said “Food is Medicine” programs have been shown to reduce hospital visits, decrease health care costs, and improve individuals’ overall health and quality of life. <\/p>\n “It’s extremely important for those individuals to have access to healthy food to maintain their health. As we all know, healthy food is really expensive right now, and this Food is Medicine program would bring extra funding to help those folks maintain healthy eating habits,” Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh said. <\/p>\n Funding proposed in the state budget<\/strong><\/p>\n The governor’s proposed budget includes $900,000 in state funding for the “Food is Medicine” program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Shapiro administration visited Ephrata in Lancaster County to highlight Governor Josh Shapiro’s proposed “Food is Medicine” pilot…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":886688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[35],"tags":[300012,81768,210,1141,1142,126114,359743,359744,91326,67,132,68,359745],"class_list":["post-886687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-food-is-medicine","tag-governor-josh-shapiro","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-lancaster-county","tag-medicaid-recipients","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-human-services-secretary-val-arkoosh","tag-pilot-program","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-val-arkoosh"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116798246480244196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}