CMS Process of Implementation of Dining Services Focused on Culture Change “Creating Home within the Nursing Home” 2015

Key Topics

• Focus on Best Practices: Ensuring nutrition assessment and care planning resources used are current, evidence-based and expert-endorsed following clinical practice guidelines from resources at the national level
• Actual 42 CFR Part 483, sections B relating to food service operations
• Review of actual tools that focus on Culture Change in Dining Services
• Discussion on key Facility Nutrition Programs within Dining (Food) service: Dining Programs, High Risk Nutrition Programs, Hydration, Nutritional Supplements, After Hours Nutrition Programs and Policies and Quality Improvement Programs
• Administrative tools that focus on potential Deficiency Criteria, Determination and Plans of Correction
• Learn what survey teams are looking for and what programs have the most impact on residents and their families when it comes to delivering quality food service

Who should Attend

• New Dietary Managers, Food Service Managers, Assisted Living Directors, etc. who do not quite understand Culture Change in Senior Care
• Administrators who want a better understanding of survey team approaches to Culture Change and Dining Service Process
• Anyone desiring to have a better understanding of what tools to use in implementation of Culture Change
• Facilities, especially smaller ones, which are struggling with the survey process