Community Servings Chief Executive Officer David Waters has been honored with a Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition. The non-profit organization has a distribution center in Mansfield that opened last February. Waters was one of 20 recipients nationwide to receive the award at the annual council meeting on Sept.
6 in Washington. The award recognizes leaders that are dedicated to building more vibrant and thriving communities through sports, physical activity, fitness and nutrition-related programs. Community Servings, whose motto is “Food Heals,” opened a 23,000-square-foot facility in the Cabot Industrial Park with plans to distribute 10,000 meals a week to people who have severe illnesses such as cancer or end-stage diabetes.
The meals are individually tailored to the patients’ dietary needs, Waters said. The company has 14 dietary experts that help tailor the meals to the client, who is not charged for the service. Most ill people don’t have an appetite, Waters said, “so to motivate them to eat, the meals have to be beautiful,.
All our meals are made from scratch.” Waters said that Community Servings meals lower health care costs because a patient who eats its food is 49% less likely to go into a hospital and 72% less likely to go into a nursing home, and it can trim 16% from health insurance bills..