FAIRFIELD POST-ACUTE REHAB

Resource Management

• Manage inventory on a biweekly basis including ordering food, supplements, and non-food items

• Complete monthly budgeting reports including the amount spent on food, supplements, and non-food items, and successfully corrected it to come in under budget rather than over for the 2017 year

People Management​​​

• Manage staffing including assessing the need for new hires, managing advertisements to recruit new hires, reviewing job applications, and interviewing possible candidates

• Manage monthly scheduling and obtaining coverage when staff call in or request off

• Conduct annual staff evaluations including employee strengths, areas for improvement, and assessing the merit of pay increases

Education

• Complete staff inservices on a variety of topics including how to use new products such as gel thickener, professional communication between staff, proper hand washing techniques, food safety, and HACCP protocols

• Conduct nutrition education for patients

Quality Assurance​​​​​ and Performance Improvement Indicators

• Ensure the dietary department passes corporate, VA, county, and state department of health evaluations by daily food temperature logs, HACCP compliance, trayline accuracy, sanitizer concentrations, drink consistencies, and staff knowledge of food safety, therapeutic diets, and kitchen sanitation procedures

• Maintain TQM by completing monthly quality assurance and performance indicators

• Interview patients to ensure patient satisfaction with timeliness, aroma, palatability, and temperature of meals, as well as overall experience at the facility

• Maintain food safety and sanitation logs

• Reviewed food labeling, dating and storage for quality assurance

• Participated in monthly safety meetings with the interdisciplinary healthcare team

Patient Care and Services​​

• Educate patients and their families on the current care plan and prescribed therapeutic or mechanically altered diets as well as addressed any dietary questions that come up throughout care conferences

• Retrieve food preferences, diet tolerance, and referral needs

• Participate in and periodically direct weekly and monthly weight committee meetings with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to develop updated care plans for patients with significant weight changes or who have no been consuming adequate nutrition

• Complete reports showing the patient weight changes and average meal consumption on a weekly and monthly basis 

• Participate in weekly care conferences with the interdisciplinary healthcare team including admission, hospice, quarterly, and annual conferences

• Complete care planning for residents including new admissions, weight variance, tube feeding, hemodialysis, pressure ulcers, quarterly assessments, and annual assessments

• Complete discharge paperwork, Minimum Data Set assessments, and admission nutritional assessments