Food-is-medicine for PACE

Meals participants look forward to. One partner behind all of it.

Epicured designs and delivers medically tailored, chef-crafted meals for PACE organizations — served on-site at your centers and shipped fresh to participants' homes. One partner, one system, and documentation that's audit-ready by default.

100+
dishes built for real therapeutic needs and cultural diversity
20+
Registered Dietitians embedded within care teams
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One dedicated support line — real people, by phone or email

What PACE leaders tell us

Poorly run food programs increase costs downstream

Poorly nourished participants need more acute care, sooner — and it shows up on the ledger. Meanwhile the food program itself eats aide hours, vendor management, and paperwork nobody planned for.

We hear some version of all four of these on almost every call:

The issues we hear most often

  1. Multiple vendors across home delivery and on-site, each running its own process.

  2. General-purpose menus retrofitted to clinical or cultural needs, instead of built for them.

  3. Manual processes and paper pulling health aides into food logistics instead of care.

  4. HIPAA compliance and MTM reporting handled by hand, order by order.

Participants and caregivers who are glad the meals arrived

Menus come from our Chief Culinary Officer, a Michelin-trained chef, and get reviewed by clinicians before they reach a plate. Caregivers get their own login, so they can manage orders instead of calling your center.

  • Cultural dishes and cuisines built into the menu, not added as an afterthought
  • Texture modifications — pureed, soft — without compromising on flavor or presentation
  • Ready-to-heat breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks on tailored schedules
  • Caregivers can place and manage participant orders to reduce staff time

Give health aides their hours back

Meals arrive fresh, portioned, and ready to heat and serve. There's no cook line to staff, no caterers to manage, and no census spreadsheet to reconcile — production and delivery run on your schedule, not the other way around.

  • Lower labor cost for program management
  • Less staff training time
  • Less waste from clear reheating guidance
  • Lower turnover in a role that's hard to fill

RD-led model: your care team approves, Epicured runs the rest — one vendor, one support line.

Lower medical risk. Compliance that's simple to audit

Every Epicured meal is built to the federal definition of a Medically Tailored Meal and logged as it's delivered, so the records are already there when someone asks for them.

Every meal follows MTM requirements

  • Provides roughly a third of recommended dietary intake
  • Built to therapeutic, evidence-based dietary specifications
  • Assigned from an actual assessment of nutritional need
  • Directed by an RDN or other nutrition professional

Built for easy auditing

A HIPAA-compliant portal logs every meal automatically: type, count, date, place, mode of delivery, and proof of delivery.

  • Medical necessity documented on every order
  • Beneficiary name and ID attached to every record
  • No spreadsheets, no paper, nothing to reconcile at month-end

Two delivery models

How meals reach every participant

The same partner scales as you do. New participants and new sites add capacity with minimal additional overhead, kitchen equipment, and headcount.

Home-delivered

Home Delivery

  • Shipped by last-mile couriers, twice a week
  • Ready-to-heat breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks
  • Reaches participants who can't get to the center
  • Caregivers manage orders under RD-set permissions

On-site

On-Site Dining

  • Fresh, portioned meals served at the PACE center
  • Production and delivery tailored to your workflow
  • No kitchen staff or caterers to manage
  • Clear reheating and plating guidance cuts waste

Proven in market today

Where this is already working

On-site

PACE network in MA

Partner since 2023

  • On-site dining across PACE sites
  • Weekly census-driven fulfillment
  • Heart-friendly, renal, and pureed lines

Home-delivered

PACE network in CA

Partner since 2026

  • Community, medically tailored, and culturally relevant meals
  • Deliveries twice a week direct to the home
  • Care team approves, Epicured runs the rest

Nationwide

Nationwide infrastructure

Same clinical standards, coast to coast

  • East Coast operations since 2016
  • West Coast opening Q4 2026
  • One partner as your network grows; nationwide delivery

Next steps

Let's scope a pilot for your network

  1. Align on priority sites and participant population.
  2. Scope a pilot: on-site, home-delivered, or both.
  3. Sign a Statement of Work; first meals typically within 30 days.
30 Days

Typically up and running within 30 days of a signed SOW — on-site, home-delivered, or both.

Talk to our PACE team

Tell us about your network and we'll come back with a scoped plan, usually within two business days.

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