Creating and Managing Special Diets

This screen contains settings for Care Plan Setup for Special Diets. You can select from a database of special diets, add and edit customized special diet names, and establish lists of suitable and unsuitable menu items.

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Special Diets are shared across Essentials, Menus, and Recipes and Production and any changes updates all facilities within your organization.

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You can copy unsuitable menu items for one special diet to another special diet reducing the manual time and effort associated with setting this up.

Administrator > Care Plan Setup > Special Diets.
Click Special Diets Name.
Complete the fields as required.
Click Close.

My Special Diets - Click on Special Diet name to make changes. You can edit the name or add custom special diets by renaming the Custom Special Diet options at the bottom of the list.
Active - Select special diets you use in your organization.
ONR (Ordering Not Required) - When selected, residents with an ONR special diet in their diet order do not appear in Unfed Residents or Meal Orders.
Tray Ticket Note (Menus enabled) - Shows in meal ordering and on resident's meal ticket when the special diet is assigned to their diet order.
Unsuitable Menu Items - Review listed menu items for accuracy.
Copy - Select the special diet name then click Copy to copy all unsuitable menu items saved for this special diet to another special diet that is similar.
Change - Select the special diet name, then click Change to add or remove suitable or unsuitable menu items from a special diet.
- Search by Menu Item - Enter name or partial name in search field.
- Search by Ingredient (if available) - Enter name or partial name of ingredient in search field to find menu items linked to recipes that contain the ingredient.
- Show All Menu Items - Filter by Menu Item Category.
- Whole Words Only (if available) - When you select Search by Ingredient, the menu items list filters on suitable menu items linked to recipes with ingredients that match the search criteria as a whole word. For example, when you enter Tea, Tea and Tea Bags, are searched for, but does not include Steak or Beef, Cube Steak.
  1. Select menu item(s).
  2. Move menu item(s) from Suitable to Unsuitable Menu Items or visa versa using > or <.
  3. Click Update.

You can print a list of special diet names and unsuitable or suitable menu items by selecting the special diet and choosing the appropriate option under Print Report.
Show Unused provides a list of special diets that are not used in any resident chart.
You can place a meal order for a resident on an ONR special diet by going to Order Manager > Resident Search. Search and select resident to navigate to Meal Ordering.
After creating, copying, or editing a special diet, run the Unsuitable or Suitable Menu Items reports to verify your work.

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Creating and Managing Special Diets

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