Ashley Tyrner-Dolce, once a single mom on Medicaid and food stamps, is the founder and CEO of one of the fastest growing healthcare services companies, FarmboxRx. Ashley’s lived experiences drove her to challenge the status quo and pioneer FarmboxRx’s innovative solution to improve health outcomes while getting healthy food to those who need it most.
Having appeared in various national news publications including TIME, being named the leader of one of their 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024, Forbes, CNN, BBC, and TODAY Show, Ashley is an advocate for advancing food access and health education to underserved populations. From creating partnerships for Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Campaign to speaking around the country on healthcare, food policy, and entrepreneurship, Ashley has a clear conviction that everyone deserves the right to eat healthy.
At the end of the day, when patients and doctors are unable to effectively engage in health care conversations, the quality of care and patient health suffer, resulting in rising U.S. healthcare costs, lower quality of care, and unhealthy patients.
These valuable caregivers do not need false claims, empty promises, or even more technology to stay on top of. They need access to health education and literacy, healthy food, and seamless self-efficacy tools.
Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.
We must empower health plan members with culturally and linguistically-relevant information about their benefits and health – tools that in turn encourage them to adopt a proactive and informed approach to their well-being.
We must advocate for the positive impact that technology can have on healthcare outcomes, while also building solutions to create a more equitable health system. This includes traditional, less tech-reliant methods for those unable to embrace technology.
Twelve short years ago I was a single mother, pregnant and surviving off of food stamps where I relied on the support of the SNAP program. Now, I’ve been given the opportunity to build a platform where I can give a voice to those in similar positions that I once was in and advocate for their needs.