Facilities must provide each resident with a nourishing, palatable, and well-balanced diet that meets daily nutritional and special dietary needs while respecting individual food preferences. Staff across all departments must coordinate to ensure resident assessments, care plans, and actual food and nutrition services align. Reasonable efforts must be made to accommodate resident dietary choices, and this tag applies when systemic issues exist in how the facility manages food and nutrition services overall.
View official sourceF800 (Rev. 173, Issued: 11-22-17, Effective: 11-28-17, Implementation: 11-28-17) §483.60 Food and nutrition services. The facility must provide each resident with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diet that meets his or her daily nutritional and special dietary needs, taking into consideration the preferences of each resident. INTENT §483.60 - To ensure that facility staff support the nutritional well-being of the residents while respecting an individual’s right to make choices about his or her diet. GUIDANCE §483.60 This requirement expects that there is ongoing communication and coordination among and between staff within all departments to ensure that the resident assessment, care plan and actual food and nutrition services meet each resident’s daily nutritional and dietary needs and choices. While it may be challenging to meet every residents’ individual preferences, incorporating a residents’ preferences and dietary needs will ensure residents are offered meaningful choices in meals/diets that are nutritionally adequate and satisfying to the individual. Reasonable efforts to accommodate these choices and preferences must be addressed by facility staff. Also, cite this Tag if there are overall systems issues relating to how the facility manages and executes its food and nutrition services.