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Welcome to Handy Dietary Consulting and the services of Linda Handy, MS, RDGreetings from Linda Handy, MS, RD:
I claim the title of retired specialty surveyor/trainer from the CA Dept of Public Health, but I would say I am not exactly retired yet!
Here are the services I offer (and seem to be adjusting all the time!)
For Objectives, on three presentation topics, please read on…
FOOD CODE 2009 & REGULATORY COMPLIANCE IN HEALTHCARE
This training manual is a result of a request to GREATLY EXPAND the training provided by the author in the Dietary Manager’s Webinar of January 2010. Challenging every Director of Food Service/Dietitian or Person in Charge as a Food Protection Manager to effective use the new Food Code 2009 (launched November 2009) as their basis for FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS. ---The learner will be able to: Identify the role, knowledge, and staff oversight; Establish Policies & Training based upon Food Code; Monitor & Self Survey with Surveyor Task Forms, Inspector Risk Evaluations; Share it with nursing to establish Employee Health and Hygiene Policies (from new resource manual) including reportable symptoms/diseases, restrictions, return to work requirements; Identify 2009 Food Code Revisions: Allergen awareness, Prioritizing risk, Leafy green-tomatoes, Changes in sanitizing contact times and EPA-registered label use instructions; and have confidence when they sign their policy and procedure manual, that it is revised, up to date, & according to the best standard of practice! For How this Manual Can Help YOU help Your Infection Control Officer, please read on… Coming Soon...
Anticipated Available at end of August2010 Surveyor MO for Nutritional Status Introductory Price! See article based upon this book at www.providermagazine.com May 2009 entitled "Nutrition Under A Microscope"by Linda Handy. "Owners, Administrators, Directors of Nursing,Medical Directors, Registered Dietitians and Food Services Supervisors will all benefit from the comprehensive cutting edge information in this book. There is no topic left unaddressed. It is easy to read, yet power packed with valuable reference material that you will undoutably refer to time and time again over the years. It does not get better than this to help every facility create and achieve a vision of greatness for the care of our honored elderly." Cindy Dahl, Licensed Administrator, PLUM Health Care Group, Corporate Dietitian. Short synopsis: "Joining forces, Victoria (Consultant Dietitian), Rebekah (former CMS nurse surveyor), and Administrator in Training (AIT), Russell establish strong systems to meet the survey challenges of the revised F 325 Nutrition Status. There are many scenarios and examples of past survey deficiencies and the ‘how to’ of compliance. They emphasize that this is a FACILITY TAG. How can you clean up weak, reactive systems (Oops, There is Weight Loss, Now What???) and strengthen Quality Assessment and Assurance with pro-active, preventative systems? In the highly regulated climate of ‘zero tolerance’ for allowing residents to decline in nutritional status and with surveyor guidance for the new INVESTIGATIVE PROTOCOL applied to EVERY SAMPLED RESIDENT, do you really think you are prepared? Learn to DO what surveyors do, before they do. Learn effective QAA, performance improvement, to demonstrate ‘good faith effort’ of correcting your own deficiency areas! READ MORE… Approved for 6 CE approval for Dietitians, Diet Techs, Dietary Managers, Nurses, and Administrators. For discounted quantity orders available, contact linda@handydietaryconsulting.com Buy Now for Introductory Discount ( 6 hr CE approvals for RD, DTR, CDM, nurses, administrators): (Regularly $40 per manual) On sale for $35 plus shipping/handling and sales tax. Safe Dining for the Susceptible Customer: 7 Professional Views During Survey, TRAINING MANUAL ON F 371
$40 plus shipping/handling and sales tax Download APPENDIX F (RESOURCE LIST FOR BOOK, OMITTED IN PRINTING) "A week in the life of a long term care dining program under survey reads like the lighthearted, but informative, "Soup opera that the writers intended. Linda Handy and Wayne Toczek communicate their passion for quality dining services in long term care and at the same time provides valuable and compelling information." read more...
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Presentations for Dietitians, Directors/Managers of Dining
Services, and all Healthcare Professionals interested in regulatory
compliance in such areas:
How effective are your Food Safety Systems in this highly regulated climate? Surveyors are receiving more training on Food Safety Standards (Food Code). Regulatory Requirements for food safety, infection control, and Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement are being revised to demand more effective healthcare (hospital and nursing home) systems.
This manual was developed to help determine how a facility can demonstrate ‘good care’ by allowing residents to make informed choices and self determination, and providing effective support systems when resident choices are made that do not meet the intent of the regulations. It helps facility staff evaluate the challenges of regulatory compliance in many areas as resident rights and self determination (to arise late, skip meals, not follow the menu or adequate diet, snack throughout the day), resident right of visitor food, facility responsibilities when residents refuse therapeutic diet, and sanitary conditions in alternative dining. It will help help facilities identify the current status of their facilities and the ‘ideal’ or goals they would set for their facilities in moving away from “traditional” or institutional food service and into a more “person-centered” dining and snack culture and concepts. See a very institutional, traditional facility embrace culture change and how each staff person has an important and valuable role in the collaborative IDT team as steps are taken to implement the mandated requirements of a more ‘home-like’ environment and person centered care allowing more resident choice in what, when, where and with whom they eat. The author incorporated her own experiences as surveyor/trainer and now as an advocate for elderly rights in dining. Included will be many perspectives, and the author’s paper on culture change barriers and regulatory compliance from the landmark CMS/Pioneernetwork Symposium on Creating Home II: Food and Dining of 2010.
