This regulation establishes nutrition standards for Community Residential Rehabilitation Services (CRRS), a mental health residential program in Pennsylvania. Operators must make meal self-sufficiency a rehabilitation goal for clients, ensure three balanced meals daily, and incorporate nutritional assessment and goals into each client's residential service plan. When staff rather than clients handle food procurement and preparation, additional requirements apply covering meal timing, dietary restrictions, menu planning, and food safety.
View official source55 Pa. Code § 5310.82 - Nutrition State Regulations Compare (a) Self-sufficiency in meal planning, shopping and food preparation must be a goal for community residential rehabilitation service (CRRS) clients. (b) The CRRS shall assure that arrangements are made to enable the client to have three well-balanced nutritious meals or their equivalent daily. The psychosocial evaluation at intake includes an assessment of the client's ability to meet his nutritional needs. The client's residential services plan must include goals and training in the nutritional area as needed. (c) In the unusual circumstance where CRRS staff rather than clients purchase and prepare the food, the following additional requirements apply: (1) Each client shall be involved in the meal planning, shopping, food preparation, service and kitchen chores as evidenced in task schedules and in the client's individual service plan. (2) Meals may be no more than 5 hours nor less than 4 hours apart in each day. There may be no more than 15 hours between evening meal and first meal of the next day. (3) When a client misses a meal, food adequate to meet daily nutritional requirements shall be available to the client. (4) Dietary restrictions prescribed by the client's physician shall be followed. Religious and philosophical dietary preferences must be followed. (5) Menus shall be prepared for 1 week in advance and must be retained on file for at least 8 weeks. (6) Food stored, prepared or served shall be clean and safe for human consumption. (7) Food returned from individual plates may not be used in the preparation of other food dishes or served again. (8) Unpasteurized milk may not be served or used in food preparation. Notes 55 Pa. Code § 5310.82 This section cited in 55 Pa. Code § 5310.91 (relating to special requirements for community residential rehabilitation service (CRRS) serving children); and 55 Pa. Code § 5310.172 (relating to nutrition). State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare. No prior version found. State Regulations Toolbox