Owen Ryan comes to Project Angel Heart with an extensive background in nonprofit management and leadership. We spoke to him about his experience in public health, passion for food as medicine, and where he sees Project Angel Heart going next.
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Diabetes Education More Effective When Paired With Medically Tailored Meals
Today, more than nine percent of Americans are living with diabetes [1], a disease that is costly for those diagnosed and for our health care system as a whole. In the U.S., one in seven health care dollars is spent treating diabetes and its complications [2].
Thanks to our study measuring the impact of medically tailored meals on monthly health care costs, we know that these costs go down nearly 27 percent when people with diabetes receive Project Angel Heart meals. And the cost reductions continue after meal service ends. Diabetes self-management education programs—which help participants navigate their diagnosis, manage symptoms, and prevent complications—have also proven effective at reducing health care costs for people with diabetes [3].
Introducing Our New President & CEO: Owen Ryan
The board of directors is pleased to announce that Owen Ryan has been hired as the next President & CEO of Project Angel Heart. Owen will officially start in his new role on August 16, 2019. Continue reading
Meet Our New Team Members, Tiana and Alex
We are thrilled to welcome Tiana Clark and Alex Reinhardt to the Project Angel Heart team! Tiana will work at our Colorado Springs office as distribution and volunteer assistant. Alex will work in our Denver office as volunteer resources coordinator.
5000+ Meals Delivered to Rural Coloradans in Shipping Program’s First Year
We celebrated a big milestone at the end of May–the one-year anniversary of Project Angel Heart’s meal shipment program! Though our Meals for Care Transitions program, we contract with a wide range of health care organizations across the state in an effort to provide medically tailored meals to a greater number of Coloradans who need them. Shipping meals is how we’re able to serve people living in rural areas whose meals are provided through one of our contracts.
In the first year of shipping meals, we delivered more than 5,000 meals to 146 clients outside of our normal delivery boundaries. We packed all of those meals in our kitchen, and then FedEx delivered them right to the recipients’ doors in communities where medically tailored meals might otherwise be hard to come by.
In year one, we sent 599 packages as far as 290 miles from our Denver kitchen. The meals were delivered to 34 different towns in 18 counties –that’s 28 percent of the counties in Colorado!
In our first year of shipping, Project Angel Heart meals delivered meals as far west as Gateway on the Western Slope and as far east as Wray on the Eastern Plains.
