NCT07251894

Pilot Study Exploring the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact of Medically Tailored Meals on Post-Discharge Recovery in Patients With Heart Failure

HF-MTM Pilot: Pilot Study Exploring the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact of Medically Tailored Meals on Post-Discharge Recovery in Patients With Heart Failure

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this interventional pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of medically tailored meals (MTM) on post-discharge recovery in patients with heart failure for Penn Medicine patients in Philadelphia and Lancaster through two pilots.

Detailed description

Pilot 1: Will enroll 30 eligible Penn Medicine patients to receive 4 weeks of medically tailored meals (MTMs) directly to their door. Patients will be given the opportunity to choose to receive 7/14/21 meals from the MTM provider for the duration of their participation in the 4 week pilot. Pilot 1 participants will be asked to complete a baseline survey, and end of study survey, and an end of study semi-structured interview. Pilot 2: Will expand upon the learnings from Pilot 1 and be a larger scale longer Food is Medicine (FIM) intervention with patients receiving 8 weeks of MTM deliveries directly to their door. As with Pilot 1, patients will be given the opportunity to choose to receive 7/14/21 meals from the MTM provider for the duration of their participation in the 8 week pilot. Pilot 2 participants will be asked to complete a baseline survey, a mid-point survey at 4 weeks, and an end of study survey and semi-structured interview.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medically Tailored Meals	Medically tailored meals to provide essential tailored nutrition for patients recovering from a heart failure hospitalization

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-30
• Completion: 2026-06-30
• First posted: 2025-11-26
• Last updated: 2026-04-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States