La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § I-9377

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section I-9377 - General Provisions

A. There shall be an organized dietary service that provides nutritional and therapeutic dietetic services to patients. All hospital contracts or arrangements for off-site food preparation shall be with a provider who is licensed by the department's healthcare division or operating under the authority of the federal government.

B. A hospital may meet the requirements of §9377. A through a contractual agreement with a provider who is licensed by the department's Health Standards Section or through a contract with an outside food management company. If the hospital has a contract with an outside food management company, the following requirements shall be met.

1. The hospital shall provide written notices to the departments Health Standards Section and to the departments Office of Public Health within 10 calendar days of the effective date of the contract.

2. The outside food management company shall possess a valid LDH, Office of Public Health retail food permit and meet all of the requirements for operating a retail food establishment that serves a highly susceptible population, in accordance with the most current version of the provisions found in Title 51, Public Health-Sanitary Code.

3. Either the hospital or the food management company shall employ or contract with a registered dietician who serves the hospital on a full-time, part-time, or consultant basis to ensure that the nutritional needs of the patients are met in accordance with the licensed healthcare practitioners' orders and acceptable, nationally recognized standards of practice and/or guidelines.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § I-9377

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of the Secretary, Bureau of Health Services Financing LR 21:177 (February 1995), amended LR 29:2413 (November 2003), amended by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 38:1413 (June 2012), Amended by the Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 451476 (10/1/2019), Amended by the Department of Health, Health Standards Section, LR 501485 (10/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S.36:254 and R.S. 40:2100-2115.