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Speaker |
Laura A Dixon |
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Industry |
Nursing |
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Speciality |
Nursing |
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Available |
All Days |
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Duration |
120 Minutes |
Description
Dietary, Food and Nutrition Services; Meeting the CMS Hospital and CAH CoPs, DNV Healthcare and TJC Requirements
As per the CMS Guidelines 2021, CMS made 3 changes to the dietary guidelines for hospitals and rewrote all the dietary guidelines for critical access hospitals that went into effect April 1, 2015, with an amendment November 29, 2019. Some hospitals are still working to ensure compliance.
This program will discuss the new CMS Guidelines 2021 or the CMS hospital conditions of participation requirements for dietary and food and nutrition services. It is an important part of the CMS survey and this area has received increased scrutiny of their standards, especially in the area of Infection control.
Following a survey, CMS prepares a list of deficiencies or citations noted during a survey. This program will cover the common deficiencies received by hospitals from CMS in this area.
CMS now permits the Medical Staff and Board to credential and privilege qualified dieticians and qualified nutritional specialists to order the patient’s diet. This includes a therapeutic diet, supplemental feeding, and enteral nutrition. This is also allowed for CAHs including swing beds. CMS has provided additional information about the C&P process for dieticians and this issue will be discussed in detail.
This Joint Commission Food Nutrition Standards program will also cover the Joint Commission provision of care chapter standards related to dietary and the TJC dietary tracer information. The tracer is used to assess and determine the degree of compliance with standards and elements of performance related to nutrition care. The tracer used through dietetic and food services covers some of the same issues discussed during the CMS survey.
This Joint Commission Food Nutrition Standards webinar will discuss the DNV Healthcare dietary standards.
Learning Objectives
Agenda
CMS Food and Dietetic Services CoP
CAH Dietary Standards
TJC Provision of Care Standards related to Dietary
Topics Discussed Throughout the Patient Tracer Activity
Dietary and food services day-to-day operation information
DNV Healthcare Standards
Professional Organization Position Statements
Who Should Attend
(BS, JD, RN, CPHRM)
Laura A. Dixon recently served as the Regional Director of Risk Management and Patient Safety for Kaiser Permanente Colorado, providing consultation and resources to clinical staff. Prior to joining Kaiser, she served as the Director of Facility Patient Safety and Risk Management and Operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Such services included creating presentations on risk management topics, assessing healthcare facilities, developing programs, and compiling reference materials that complement physician-oriented products.
Before joining COPIC, she served as the Director, of the Western Region, Patient Safety and Risk Management for The Doctors Company, Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff in the western United States. Ms. Dixon’s legal experience includes medical malpractice insurance defense and representation of nurses before the Colorado Board of Nursing.
Ms. Dixon has over twenty years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services, and pain management.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Laura holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University, RECEP of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.