I congratulate Kidd for bringing forward a valuable discussion on improving hospital food. 1
The entire health care system would benefit if hospitals and other health care institutions …

In the past decade, a significant push has been made for more transparency in quality
reporting, including many new transparencyprovisionsinthePatientProtecti…, also known as …

On the menu at New York City's 11 public hospitals is pasta with Bolognese sauce, without
the meat. Or Sancocho, a Latin American beef stew, minus the beef. Or maybe a black-eyed …

According to the CDC,“when healthy foods are not available, people may settle for foods that
are higher in calories and lower in nutritional value;” thus, cultivating healthy food …

Suboptimal diet qualityis among the leading factors associated with death and disability in
the United States1 and globally. 2 Strategies to address suboptimal diet focusonnutritioneducationthroughdietarygui …

Low‐value care threatened the sustainability of healthcare even before the COVID‐19
pandemic with up to 30% of care estimated to be wasteful—meaning it does not add value …

Becerra's eloquence marked the launch of a first-ever summit at HHS and captured the
fervor surrounding the meeting's topic: food is medicine. The term broadly describes nutrition …

Two of the oldest maxims in health care are “do no harm” and “let food be thy medicine and
medicine be thy food.” However, these two maxims may no longer be compatible. In the …

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has primary responsibility for oversight of every
drug, biologic, and medical device sold in the United States. Yet the FDA is far more than a …

With this evolution, the volume of publicly available data
onhealthcarequalityhasincreasedrapidly. Federalagencies, private organizations, health …