Episode
Weekly FIH Livestream TODAY: What Just Happened to Hospital Food
- Published
- Apr 2, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 218
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-food-is-health-revolution-7066536/episodes/weekly-fih-livestream-today-what-just-happened-to-hospital-food/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-food-is-health-revolution-7066536/weekly-fih-livestream-today-what-just-happened-to-hospital-food.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Join us for our Weekly Livestream Today April 2, 2026 | @1pm ET | Click Here to Join I was not planning to livestream on Monday.I was standing in a room at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in South Florida, amongst a small invite-only gathering centered around an announcement coming from HHS & CMS by the leaders making it themselves, in-person. The lead-up antics had me confused about the entire thing. Added to the constant reminder I have to provide to many that I’m not in the room for the messenger but the message. Restoring human health. That I’m not looking to add to the ongoing thread of whether more harm than good has been done. My objective is to understand all of the tailwinds that could accelerate the creation of System C and a parallel Human Outcome-based economy. A $9T economy. But as the unexpected announcement began, I decided to simply go live on Substack. I’ve never done that before. Within about 3 minutes, more people joined from the outside via Substack than were physically in the room. When I saw the names pop up - many of them leaders of the Food Is Medicine movement across this country - I knew I had made the right decision. It should come as no surprise that the media in attendance completely missed what the announcement actually represented. And so, as Carter Williams and I debriefed with Maura Plante who was one of the leaders/hosts of the event, yesterday, it became clear we owed it to our (now) 18,000 strong subscriber base to dive in properly. Today we will go live at 1pm ET with Maura, founder of Living Hungry and the Florida Health and Nutrition Coalition. Maura has been doing the unglamorous, essential, deeply human work of building food-as-health infrastructure in communities that the policy conversation references constantly but rarely actual…