In this special encore episode, host Barbara Petee talks with David Waters, CEO of Community Servings, a critical regional program providing medically tailored meal (MTM) plans in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Waters discusses the role that MTMs play in tackling a variety of issues often facing underserved communities, both in terms of social justice, food insecurity, and health care.

Waters says, “When we think of trying to right the ship of healthcare in America, nobody in healthcare was talking about medically tailored meals or food as medicine even five years ago. And it seemed so daunting to get anyone's attention.

"But through groups like Root Cause, Community Servings, and the Food Is Medicine Coalition, I rarely go into a meeting anymore where a doctor, or a healthcare leader, or an insurer doesn't already know the term - medically tailored meals - and know of the research that we've published. So when you think that one person or one small agency can't have an impact, we're doing such major work together and things really are changing.”