Twenty percent of the clients Project Angel Heart serves—about 250 people each week—live in the Colorado Springs area. But all the meals are made in the kitchen in Denver… so how do they get where they need to go?
With the help of a freezer truck and its rain-or-shine driver, a generous community partner (with big freezers!), two Colorado Springs staff members, and a whole bunch of eager volunteers. Continue reading
Most people know that a healthy diet can reduce your risk of developing heart disease. But what if you’ve already been diagnosed? Can what you eat have a positive impact on your health or the amount you spend on health care?
The answer for many people is yes, according to research conducted this year by Project Angel Heart, a Colorado nonprofit that prepares and delivers medically tailored meals to people living with life-threatening illnesses, and the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC). The study used medical claims data from more than 700 Project Angel Heart clients to compare their total monthly medical costs before, during, and after they received meal deliveries.
While receiving medically tailored meals, total monthly medical costs for people living with congestive heart failure decreased by 26 percent, an average cost savings of $735 per month per person. Continue reading
More than 30 million Americans have diabetes, and 84 million have prediabetes. One in every seven health care dollars is spent treating diabetes and its complications. [1]
So Project Angel Heart is teaming up with Telligen QIN-QIO, an organization that improves the effectiveness and value of Medicare services in Colorado, on a pilot program to address diabetes throughout the state. Continue reading
With the holiday season upon us, we’re taking some time to look back on this year and reflect on the things we’re grateful for. One of those things- a generous grant award from Telligen Community Initiative (TCI) to support research and education related to food as medicine.
TCI is an Iowa-based, private charitable foundation. They awarded Project Angel Heart with $30,000 to support our efforts to build evidence that shows the connection between medically tailored meals and reducing health care costs and utilization. Continue reading
After nearly 24 years at Project Angel Heart, and 14 years in the role of President & CEO, Erin Pulling is hanging up her apron and saying farewell (read her farewell letter here).
Erin, who joined Project Angel Heart in 1995, was key to helping the organization grow from a small, grassroots group operating out of church kitchens, to a financially strong organization making a measurable impact on the health of Coloradans. Continue reading
