Wednesday January 4, 2012
Pioneer Network Announces New Dining Practices
Standards
The Pioneer Network announced that its Food and Dining Clinical
Standards Task Force: A Rothschild Regulatory Task Force has
finalized new Dining Practice Standards agreed to by twelve
national clinical standard-setting associations. These nationally
agreed upon new food and dining standards of practice support
individualized care and self-directed living versus traditional
diagnosis-focused treatment for people living in nursing home. The
New Dining Practice Standards document reflects evidence-based
research available to-date as well as current thinking.
The Pioneer Network stated that 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.
Pioneer Network plans to submit the new Dining Practice
Standards to CMS, FDA,
CDC and the long-term care community at
large. It is anticipated that CMS
will refer to these new agreed-upon standards of practice within
long term care interpretive guidance where they fit as
CMS usually refers to the current standards of
practice set by the clinicians who work within the long term care
field. It is the goal of the Task Force that surveyors, clinicians
and interdisciplinary team members will put these new standards
into practice in order to continue their efforts to improve quality
of life for those living in nursing homes across the country.
New
Dining Practice Standards 8-26-11