April 2011

NNHW spotlights nursing home residents and staff and encourages all to celebrate those that make a positive difference in their lives every day. A supportive and caring environment, such as a nursing home, provides enrichment for residents and families to continue growing, learning and teaching through various ways. The week also provides an opportunity to [...]

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On April 23, 2011 CMS  has implemented the first change to add information to allowing consumers to more directly file complaints about nursing homes with State Survey Agencies. These changes include adding links from Nursing Home Compare to State complaint websites and making State phone numbers and fax numbers more prominent on Nursing Home Compare. [...]

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The Texas Senate Finance Committee has produced recommendations that will continue to finance Nursing Homes in Texas. The previous House Bill and Budget would have caused hundreds on Nursing Homes to be forced to close. Senate Finance approves $176.5 billion, two year state budget The Senate’s version would spend at least $12 billion more of [...]

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More opportunities for Dietitians as Menu Label Rules become a reality! EAT OUT, EAT HEALTHY A federal menu labeling law will: Require restaurant chains with 20 or more locations to print calories on menus. Require chains to make fat, sodium, sugar and other nutritional information available on request. Require similar nutrition labels on vending machines. Exempt [...]

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I ran accross this article regarding Restaurant Safety of Employees…although most of our readers are geared more to healthcare…I think the article contains some great ideas to keep in mind and ideas for employee training and inservice! Restaurateurs focus on customer satisfaction, which includes delivering great food and service, but there are many moving parts [...]

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When it is impossible to turn on the News and not hear about Federal or State Budgets…here is an interesting concept to “Save a Trillion Dollars” and it all starts with eating right! In the scheme of things, saving the 38 billion bucks that Congress seems poised to agree upon is not a big deal. [...]

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One of the year’s biggest trends in Food Service…Locally Grown We can then debate Fresh verses Frozen, the following article gives some good reasons to stick with frozen-especially to maintain a constant quality of product. Fresh can vary, especially when one needs to look and see “how fresh”. Read on for a new technology that [...]

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Commercial Assays to Assess Gluten Content of Gluten-Free Foods: Why They Are Not Created Equal   Abstract   A standardized method of analysis is needed to quantitatively determine the gluten content of food and provide the basis for enforcing regulations regarding use of the term gluten-free in food labeling. People with celiac disease should feel [...]

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ATLANTA — An aggressive four-year effort to reduce the spread of deadly bacterial infections at veterans’ hospitals is showing impressive results and may have broad implications at medical centers across the country, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the program, which was released Wednesday afternoon. Enlarge This Image Jeff Swensen for The New York Times [...]

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Increasing Food Prices

April 12, 2011

Food Prices are continuing to increase at record breaking speed…here are some of the sources of our problems…World economic growth, rising crude oil prices, shrinking stockpiles, strong commodity demand and severe crop-destroying weather have created a perfect storm of sorts, resulting in rising food costs worldwide. In fact, the global food price index, compiled from [...]

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