Meg Stanley of Wholespire and Zack King of DellaRa Consulting represented Food is Medicine South Carolina (FiMSC) at the 2025 Food is Medicine Implementers’ Workshop, hosted by the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School. Held in early October, the workshop brought together leaders from across the country for a day of learning, inspiration, and strategy-building.
The event energized participants to think creatively about how to engage healthcare providers, patients, and decision-makers in advancing nutrition-based interventions. Meg and Zack heard from policy experts on maximizing impact through local food procurement, from funders on building resilient financial models for nutrition services, and from community organizations overcoming barriers by partnering with food hubs. The research presented was overwhelmingly positive, reinforcing that nutrition interventions are both effective and essential to improving health outcomes.
While pathways to implement Food is Medicine strategies—such as Produce Prescriptions and Medically Tailored Meals—vary by community, we’re actively learning how to ensure that patients in South Carolina have the option to incorporate nutrition into their healthcare plans, regardless of the type of coverage they have. Our goal is to help make nutrition services a standard part of care—accessible, reimbursable, and recognized as essential to health. As Wholespire deepens its engagement in policy surrounding Food is Medicine, we’re committed to supporting solutions that work for all South Carolinians.
Engaging, educating, and connecting healthcare providers to this initiative is ongoing, and we’re excited about the momentum building across the state.