This webinar will highlight policy, process, methods to improve standards of educating and instituting 483.60 Food & Nutrition Services in Healthcare Operations. Specifically, ways to ensure compliance to FTag 360-372 (Food & Nutrition Services), FTag 360-372, F-Tag 520 (Quality Assessment and Assurance); along with (Hospital Food Service)A-Tag 0618, (Quality Assessment and Assurance),food handling. hygiene practices A-Tag0618, A-Tag0620, personnel performance. A-Tag0622 will focus on ways to educate staff.
CMS Survey Teams have specific guidelines to ensuring compliance to appropriate competencies and skills sets (training)to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, taking into consideration resident assessments, to include Kitchen Observation, Dining Observation, Staff Interviews, Consumer Interviews, Department self-evaluation PIP (Performance Improvement Projects) or facility-wide QAPI (Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement).