Welcome to Handy Dietary Consulting and the services of Linda Handy, MS, RD

Greetings 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!):

CE Presentations for Dietitians, Directors/Managers of Dining Services, and all Healthcare Professionals interested in regulatory compliance in such areas:

• Maintaining Nutrition Status F 325, Preventing Deficiencies
• Safe Food Handling F 371, Preventing Deficiencies
• Resident Centered Culture Change & Regulatory Compliance
• Setting up Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement in Dietary Services

CQI and Mock Surveys for Long Term Care and Hospital Dietary Services

Mentoring for new Dietary Supervisors

Training Manuals :

New training manual, 6CEU, coming March 2010

Introductory Price!

Surveyor MO for Nutritional Status

(F 325), by Linda Handy.

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 (Distribution first week in July, with 6 hr CE approvals for RD, DTR, CDM, nurses, administrators): (Regularly $40 per manual) $35 plus $6 shipping/handling plus $3.06 CA tax: Total $44.06

Buy 10 for a 10% discount Below: Total $395.90

 

Buy a ‘Bundle’ of Two Training Manuals (12 hr CE for RD,DTR, CDM, nurses, administrators) for less than $6 per unit! Safe Dining for the Susceptible Customer (F 371) PLUS Surveyor MO for Nutritional Status (F 325) for a discounted: $70 plus $12 spg/hdlg plus $ 6.125 CA tax: Total $ 88.13

 

Safe Dining for the Susceptible Customer: 7 Professional Views During Survey, TRAINING MANUAL ON F 371

With Wayne Toczek, One week in a nursing home's survey with an immediate jeopardy called in unsafe food handling & its abatement; NOTE: Approved for 6 CE for Dietitians, Dietary Managers, and Nurses

$40 plus $6 shipping/handling plus $3.50 CA tax: Total $49.50

Buy 10 for a discounted price below: Total $395.90

 

Buy a ‘Bundle’ of Two Training Manuals (12 hr CE for RD,DTR, CDM, nurses, pending administrators) for less than $6 per unit! Safe Dining for the Susceptible Customer (F 371) PLUS Surveyor MO for Nutritional Status (F 325) for a discounted: $70 plus $12 spg/hdlg plus $ 6.125 CA tax: Total $ 88.13

 

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...

- Floyd Rhoades
CEO, Vista Cove Senior Living
Immediate Past Chairman of the Board, California Association of Health Facilities

New: CALIFORNIA TITLE 22 REVIEW FOR DIETARY SERVICES AND NUTRITION CARE A SIX HOUR TRAINING INSERVICE MANUAL

NOTE: A 6 hour CE training session is available for comprehensive instruction on Title 22’s dietary services, nutrition (overlap into nursing care), and administrative requirements, plus a cross walk to the federal requirements and tags. Several hundreds have now received training on this manual. Dietitians and nurses are recognizing the importance of a detailed review to prepare for either a general acute hospital survey using Title 22 or the new state licensing surveys attached to the annual federal OBRA surveys in Skilled Nursing. This inservice manual, designed for self study, will meet the requirement of 6 hours inservice training for Certified Dietary Managers (new state pathway for qualified CDM) and has been approved by Dietary Managers Association for 6 CE. It is pending approval for 6 CE for Dietitians and Diet Techs by ADA (add to portfolio as self study until approved) and for 6 CE by CAHF for BRN for nurses.

$40 plus $6 shipping/handling plus $ 3.50 : Total $CA tax: Total $49.50

 

Safe Dining at Home and Away, with Vicki Solomon, out in Summer 2010