MISSION:

"By providing coaching, education and tools, we can help to empower Registered Dietitians and Certified Diabetes Educators to achieve personal and professional success by taking them from good to best."

DM&A’s Nutrition Division provides coaching, mentoring, training, education, on best practice, for the Clinical Nutrition Manager, Registered Dietitians, Dietetic Technicians and Certified Diabetes Educators.

Currently DM&A provides the Malnutrition Diagnosing Program and Clinical Nutrition Audits for DM&A clients. Room Service and Insulin Delivery instruction is a service under the Room Service area of expertise.

The Nutrition Division includes services in the areas of Clinical Nutrition (Inpatient) and Outpatient Nutrition Services, and Diabetes Management and Program Services.

Coaching and education is focused primarily on the following but not limited to: all aspects of the patient care plan, including the screening, assessment, intervention, and monitoring and evaluation of the patient, the client interview, and also the "business" of dietetics. The business of dietetics involves program development, reimbursement, clinical nutrition audits, and clinical nutrition staffing in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
 

3 AREAS OF SERVICE:

1. Clinical Nutrition (Inpatient)
2. Outpatient Nutrition Programs
3. Diabetes Self-Management Education Program

• Malnutrition Diagnosing Program
    - Implementation
    - Successfully maintaining and increasing malnutrition clinical nutrition training and reimburse
      outcomes.
• Nutrition Care Process and Effective & Efficient Charting (includes chart review)
  The Nutrition Care Process is designed to improve the consistency and quality of individualized care for patients/clients or groups.
• Culturally Competency in Clinical Nutrition
• Policies & Procedures
• Clinical Nutrition Manager Job Duties & Responsibilities
• TPN Appropriateness
• Clinical Nutrition Audit

• Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Renal Nutrition / Dialysis
• Wound Care Clinic
• Cancer Care Services

Areas of Focus:

• Program Development and / or Expansion
• Policy and Procedure Development
• Patient Counseling Review and Development
• Scheduling Individual and Group Visit Review / Development
• Best Practice / Guidelines
• Marketing the Outpatient Program
• Reimbursement
• Medicare MNT Benefit

• Medicare DSMT Benefit
• Program Development and / or Expansion
• Patient Counseling Review and Development
• Scheduling Individual and Group Visit Review / Development
• Policy and Procedure Development
• Blood Glucose Management in the inpatient setting, goals / review
• Room Service and Insulin Best Practice Development / Review
• Best Practice / Guidelines for management of diabetes.
• Marketing DSMT
• Shared Medical Appointments