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New Dining Practice Standards Finalized

10/18/2011 Provider Magazine
 Patrick Connole
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The Pioneer Network has finalized new Dining Practice Standards, agreed to by 12 national clinical standard-setting organizations, for supporting individualized care and self-directed living versus traditional diagnosis-focused treatment for people living in nursing facilities, the group said on Monday.

The document includes the following new standards: Individualized Nutrition Approaches/Diet Liberalization; Individualized Diabetic/Calorie Controlled Diet; Individualized Low Sodium Diet; Individualized Cardiac Diet; Individualized Altered Consistency Diet; Individualized Tube Feeding; Individualized Real Food First; Individualized Honoring Choices; Shifting Traditional Professional Control to Individualized Support of Self Directed Living; and New Negative Outcome.

“The importance of these new agreed-upon clinical standards cannot be overstated as food and dining are an integral part of individualized care and self-directed living for people living in nursing homes,” the Pioneer Network said.

The organization will submit the new standards to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the long term care community at large.

It is anticipated that CMS will refer to the new standards of practice within long term care interpretive guidance where they fit as the agency usually refers to the current standards of practice set by the clinicians who work within the long term care field. 

According to the Pioneer Network, food and dining are an integral part of individualized care and self-directed living for several reasons, including the complexity of food and dining requirements when advancing models of culture change, the importance of food and dining as a significant element of daily living, and because the most frequent questions and concerns CMS receives from regulators and providers consistently focus on dining and food policies in nursing homes.

“Therefore, we believe this area is one most in need of national dialogue if we are to improve quality of life for persons living in nursing homes while maintaining safety and quality of care,” the group said.

The recommendations were acted on in conjunction with funding from the Rothschild Foundation to the Pioneer Network in 2011, which allowed formation of the organization’s Food and Dining Clinical Standards Task Force. The task force is comprised of symposium experts, representatives from CMS’ Division of Nursing Homes, FDA, and CDC as well as national standard setting groups.
Download the new standards HERE.

The Pioneer Network has finalized new Dining Practice Standards, agreed to by 12 national clinical standard-setting organizations, for supporting individualized care and self-directed living versus traditional diagnosis-focused treatment for people living in nursing facilities, the group said on Monday.

The document includes the following new standards: Individualized Nutrition Approaches/Diet Liberalization; Individualized Diabetic/Calorie Controlled Diet; Individualized Low Sodium Diet; Individualized Cardiac Diet; Individualized Altered Consistency Diet; Individualized Tube Feeding; Individualized Real Food First; Individualized Honoring Choices; Shifting Traditional Professional Control to Individualized Support of Self Directed Living; and New Negative Outcome.

“The importance of these new agreed-upon clinical standards cannot be overstated as food and dining are an integral part of individualized care and self-directed living for people living in nursing homes,” the Pioneer Network said.

The organization will submit the new standards to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the long term care community at large.

It is anticipated that CMS will refer to the new standards of practice within long term care interpretive guidance where they fit as the agency usually refers to the current standards of practice set by the clinicians who work within the long term care field. 

According to the Pioneer Network, food and dining are an integral part of individualized care and self-directed living for several reasons, including the complexity of food and dining requirements when advancing models of culture change, the importance of food and dining as a significant element of daily living, and because the most frequent questions and concerns CMS receives from regulators and providers consistently focus on dining and food policies in nursing homes.

“Therefore, we believe this area is one most in need of national dialogue if we are to improve quality of life for persons living in nursing homes while maintaining safety and quality of care,” the group said.

The recommendations were acted on in conjunction with funding from the Rothschild Foundation to the Pioneer Network in 2011, which allowed formation of the organization’s Food and Dining Clinical Standards Task Force. The task force is comprised of symposium experts, representatives from CMS’ Division of Nursing Homes, FDA, and CDC as well as national standard setting groups.

Download the new standards HERE.

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