LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
 

DNS offers comprehensive dietary services provided by experienced professional dietary consultants to senior operators and staff of long term care facilities. We have the capability to provide every level and type of support needed to insure your dietary department operates in a smooth, cost effective, quality and caring manner.

Clinical Services – Registered Dietitian consultants can be provided for the clinical assessment needs of a long term care facility. Whether it is for an ongoing contract or vacation relief, DNS provides an experienced consultant who will work with the facility staff to meet the nutritional needs of the residents. DNS often provides consultation on a case by case basis for the most severe nutritionally at risk residents in a facility. Occasionally it helps to have another pair of eyes to make sure every attempt is being made to meet the needs of a nutritionally fragile resident. DNS has a knack for creatively exploring nutritional interventions not previously tried.

Survey Management– Years of experience enables DNS collaboratively to offer extensive survey management services to long term care facilities. Pre-surveys can be a valuable tool in helping a facility discover the areas requiring work to achieve regulatory compliance, and DNS works especially well with the staff in the facility to uncover those areas. DNS will develop a plan of correction and follow through with implementation. When a facility has the unfortunate experience of failing an inspection, there can be extensive daily fines and chaos created by nonstop surveyor rounds in a facility that is already demoralized. DNS can provide experienced, and above all, compassionate direction to the dietary staff and dietitians involved in the crisis. We have a 100% track record for survey turnarounds, passing each resurvey in a turnaround situation. Focus areas include - weight loss and nutritional status of residents, pressure sore development and treatment, enteral feeding management issues, sanitation, menus, food temperatures, food preparation and delivery, supplement delivery, and diets served according to physician orders.

Menu Development – DNS provides Menus with Recipes that can be individualized according to a facility’s population or cultural makeup. Menus are easy to read and always cost effective to reflect a company’s food related budget.

Executive Consulting - DNS provides valuable insight to senior executives regarding dietary related costs and risk management. We can provide concise easy to read reports that show a true reflection of food, labor, and supplement costs. Looking for ways to generate revenue? DNS has the experience it takes to leave no stone unturned in dietary related areas. Whether it is a referral program to the therapists for mechanically altered diets, or enteral therapy management, DNS can bring to light untapped revenue sources for your organization.