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.
Dietary, Food and Nutrition Services; Meeting the CMS Hospital and CAH CoPs, DNV Healthcare and TJC Requirements 2019 covers topics such as:
- 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
Dietary, Food and Nutrition Services; Meeting the CMS Hospital and CAH CoPs, DNV Healthcare and TJC Requirements 2019 is intended for:
- 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
