Catalog Number : ngd1741
Title : CMS Resvised Hospital CoP Dietary, DNV Healthcare and TJC Standards
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 7-17-2017
Webplay Price : $ 150 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

Target Audience:

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

A few of the topics to be discussed:

CMS Food and Dietetic Services CoP Topics

• How to obtain current copy of CoP manual
• Ways to keep up with CMS changes
• Starts at tag number 618
• CMS proposed change for 2012
• Organized dietary services
• Director and qualified dietary staff required
• Must meet nutritional needs of patients
• Policies 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.
• Same standards whether or not by contracted services
• Director who is full time and qualified
  • List of responsibilities to include in job description
  • Approve patient menus and nutritional supplements, patient dietary counseling, collaborating with other staff, maintaining patient data to recommend, prescribe, or modify therapeutic diets etc.
• Policies and procedures include
  • Safety practices for food handling, emergency food supplies, orientation, work assignments, menu planning, purchasing of foods and supplies etc.
• Survey procedure questions
• Diets and menus to meet the needs of patients
• Therapeutic dies and guidelines
• Nutritional needs in accordance with recognized dietary practices
• Current therapeutic diet manual approved by MS and dietician

TJC Provision of Care Standards related to Dietary

• Nutritional Screen
• Time frame for screens
• Food and nutrition
• Person responsible for food and nutrition services
• Proper sanitation, temperature, etc of food and nutrition
• What to do if patient refuses food
• Accommodation of special diets
• Accommodation of ethnic food and nutrition preferences
• Storage of food and nutrition
• Therapeutic diet manual
• Patient education on nutritional interventions, diets, supplements Topics Discussed Throughout the Patient Tracer Activity
• Assessment, care planning
• Instructions by qualified staff
• Identification and nutrition risk
• Nutrition screening criteria
• Time frames for nutrition assessment and re-evaluation
• Measuring food consumption
• Special population needs such as NPO, on vents, in isolation, getting hyperalimentation
• Procedure to follow if patient refuses meals
• Discharge education and referrals
• Communications between dietician and food services Dietary and food services day to day operation information
• Director of dietary qualifications
• Responsibilities of dietary and food services leaders
• Emergency/disaster plans
• Hospital diets and menus
• Food preparation and storage
• Safe food handling and health of food service staff
• Contracts for services, food, nutrition support supplies and formulas
• Sanitation and infection control (pest control, chemicals)
• Quality improvement activities etc.

Webinar Objectives:

• Discuss the Joint Commission tracers for food and dietetic services
• Describe the CMS section on food and nutrition services in the hospital condition of participation standards
• Recall that the Joint Commission provision of care chapter has several standards on dietetic services

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