Dietary, Food and Nutrition Services; Meeting the CMS Hospital and CAH CoPs, DNV Healthcare and TJC Requirements 2019

Dietary, Food and Nutrition Services; Meeting the CMS Hospital and CAH CoPs, DNV Healthcare and TJC Requirements 2019 is a webinar dedicated to common deficiencies received by hospitals from CMS.

Topics

• C&P to order patient diets
• Final regulations on credentialing and privileging qualified dieticians and qualified nutritional specialist
• State law and hospital policy
• Can be with or without appointment to the MS
• Must be C&P by MS and board
• State scope of practice
• Proposed changes rea dieticians ordering patient diet
• How to obtain current copy of CoP manual
• Starts at tag number 618
• Ways to keep up with CMS changes
• Organized dietary services
• 3 tag numbers changes and one deleted (Tag 628, 929, and 630)
• Must meet nutritional needs of patients
• Director and qualified dietary staff required
• Diet manual availability, frequency of meals served, system for diet ordering and tray delivery, accommodation of non-routine occurrence, acceptable hygiene practices, kitchen sanitation etc
• Policies required
• Director who is full time and qualified
• Same standards whether or not by contracted services
• Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements, patient dietary counseling, collaborating with other staff, maintaining patient data to recommend
• List of responsibilities to include in job description
• Policies and procedures include
• Prescribe, or modify therapeutic diets etc
• Survey procedure questions
• Safety practices for food handling, emergency food supplies, orientation, work assignments, menu planning, purchasing of foods and supplies etc
• Therapeutic dies and guidelines
• Diets and menus to meet the needs of patients
• Current therapeutic diet manual approved by MS and dietician
• Nutritional needs in accordance with recognized dietary practices
• Infection control important in dietary
• CMS third revised hospital worksheet on infection control

Who should Attend

• Director of dietary
• Dieticians
• Joint Commission liaison or accreditation director DNV Healthcare
• Dietary staff
• Compliance officer
• CMS or regulatory staff
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Chief Operating Officer
• Nurse educator
• Nurses and nurse managers
• Medical staff and MS department staff
• Chief Medical Officer
• Anyone else responsible for complying with the CMS, DNV Healthcare or Joint Commission standards that affect dietary and nutrition services