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Accurately Completing the MDS 3.0 for Optimal Care and Reimbursement

The Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI)  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the Minimum Data Set Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual to offer guidance on effectively providing appropriate care for nursing home and other long term care residents. The RAI manual consists of three areas: the Minimum Data…Read More

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Questions about Enteral Nutrition and Fat Malabsorption?

Join award winning dietitian, Dr. Jeanette Hasse, as she helps define nutrition treatment options! Earn 1.0 CPEU! Live Webinar Tuesday August 25 (2:00-3:00 PM EDT) – Recording available within a few days. Are you providing…Read More

RDs Making a Difference in Haiti (Part 2)

It’s been a while since I last blogged about our efforts to assist the hospital in Port au Prince Haiti. The nurse we were working with has moved back to the U.S., but continues to… Read More

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RDs Making a Difference: Nutrition Help for Haiti Hospital Patients

Despite the fact that it has been more than a year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, people there are still in desperate need of help. It’s amazing to realize that even a small donation… Read More

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Safe Tips for Eating Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nancy is a healthy 66 year old woman, but still very concerned about the news she keeps hearing about the Coronavirus (COVID-19). She is afraid to go to the grocery store and decides to call…Read More

Shattering 7 Myths about Nutrition Focused Physical Assessment

Guest blogger: Mary Litchford PHD, RDN, LDN Myth # 1: I’m too busy to learn how to do Nutrition Focused Physical Assessment (NFPA). Keeping clinical skills consistent with current standards of practice in dietetics is… Read More

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Playing an Essential Role in Nutrition Care

Becky Dorner has a passion for health and nutrition, leading her to find innovative solutions and share her knowledge with the global dietetics community. We are so proud of Becky’s contributions, and the essential role…Read More

Making Mealtime Magic for Older Adults in Health Care Communities

In the past couple of years, Covid has thrown the best of intentions for food service delivery and dining in post-acute care facilities into turmoil. Staffing shortages, communal dining restrictions, and food supply chain issues… Read More

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New Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D

The Institute of Medication (IOM) of the National Academies, Food and Nutrition Board released new recommendations for vitamin D and calcium on November 30, 2010. Health claims have been made forcancer prevention, diabetes, falls, preeclampsia, and… Read More

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Nutrition for Alzheimer’s Disease

Most of us can say that our lives have been touched by Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia in some way, and with the aging of America, the number of people affected by this condition continues to… Read More

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Making a Difference: Nancy Munoz, DCN, MHA, RDN, FAND

What is your mission/vision? To live each day with faith, love and passion so that I may make a difference in people’s lives. I want to live each day to the fullest, be a life-long… Read More

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Making a Difference: Sue Stillman Linja, RDN, LD, March 2016

Mission/Vision: To live happy and long….by nourishing the whole body with food, love and movement. Making a Difference in the Lives of Older Adults Every day I pray I’ve made a difference…. My career started… Read More

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Making a Difference: Suzanne C Cryst, RDN, CSG, LD

What is your mission/vision Making a difference each day. To know at the end of a day, a resident’s quality of life has improved, burdens lifted, a smile has been shared… if even for a… Read More

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