Long Term Care Monitoring Tools: Resident Meal Time and Dining Experience Kitchen and Food Service

By Nora Wellington

Meal time is an opportunity for residents to experience good "Quality of Life" in their "home", while they interact with each other and with the staff. These monitoring tools will help the staff gauge whether the residents are having a great meal time experience, a good meal time experience, or a not so good meal time experience. When surveyors come to your facility this is one of the important aspects of care they observe. These tools will help you before the surveyors walk through your doors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468585414

Nora Wellington

Nora Wellington, MBA, Licensed Nursing Home Administrator with thirty plus (30+) years hands-on administrator experience, is a Long Term Care Management Consultant with a passion for patient care. Through her career as a Nursing Home Administrator she helped a hospital open a brand new Hospital Based Subacute/Skilled Nursing Facility. She became a consultant to help facilities steer their leadership operations towards Quality and Regulatory Compliance. As a consultant, she applied her expertise, experience and leadership skills to spearhead and provided services for facilities including National and Regional Long Term Care Facilities.

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© 2012 Nora Wellington. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 6/13/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4685-8541-4 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4685-8542-1 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012910658

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N WELLINGTON ASSOCIATES LLC

Long Term Care Consulting Specializing in Regulatory Compliance

LONG TERM CARE MONITORING TOOLS

FOR

RESIDENT MEAL TIME AND DINING EXPERIENCE

AND

KITCHEN AND FOOD SERVICE

Nora Wellington

This book with the accompanying monitoring tools for the related Federal Regulations, and F-tags is designed to help staff monitor for survey preparedness and for maintaining compliance. It is not the intention of the author that this book be used as the only source for survey preparation, or for compliance with the related F-tags.

The author encourages facility staff to utilize this book in addition to the Federal long term care regulations and other State regulatory materials. This book should not be a substitute for the Federal Long Term Care Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines or the State Long Term Care Regulations.

© Nora Wellington

While the author has used her best efforts in preparing this book, she makes no representations or warranties with respect to the completeness or accuracy of the contents of this book. Readers should be aware that sources and manuals are periodically revised, and new quality initiatives are periodically issued.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

About The Author

Introduction

Part I State Operations Manual Appendix P Brief Synopsis

Survey Protocol For Long Term Care Facilities, Appendix P

Definitions Of Selected

Survey Protocol And Survey Process Traditional Survey

Survey Protocol And Survey Process Quality Indicator Survey

Part II Regulations And F-Tags And Monitoring Tools

How To Use The Monitoring Tools

Regulation F-Tags For Resident Meal Time And Dining Experience

Resident Meal Time And Dining Experience Monitoring Tool

Regulation F-Tags For Kitchen And Food Service

Kitchen And Food Service Monitoring Tool

Part III Enforcement Brief Synopsis

The Deficiency Matrix And Remedies

Acknowledgments

This is to say special thanks to my friends and colleagues, and also to other long term care professionals and facility administrators who have purchased my first book, The Fundamentals of Quality for Long Term Care Part 1. I appreciate the positive feedback I received from my colleagues. To the other facility administrators, I hope that you and your staff also found the book useful and beneficial. I also welcome feedback from you.

To my sister, Alicia Creighton-Allen, who co-authored the first book with me, thank you. It was a great experience working with you on the project.

To my good friend and colleague, who will remain nameless for now; and his staff, who took the time to review and edited this book, Long Term Care Monitoring Tools, I thank you. I appreciate you reviewing the book for accuracy of content and quality. I appreciate your continuous support. I also thank my sister Gloria Allen who did the initial editing of the manuscript. I appreciate you giving of your time.

To my husband Dudley, thank you your love and support. To my sons, Dudley II and Neal thank you very much also for your love and continuous support; I am very grateful. I also give special thanks