Section 22-B3418. THERAPEUTIC DIETS  


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    3418.1All community residence facilities that accept or retain residents in need of special or therapeutic diets shall provide for those diets to be planned, prepared, and served as prescribed by the attending physician. Those community residence facilities shall consult regularly with a dietitian.

     

    3418.2The dietitian shall have access to the resident’s permanent record containing the physician’s prescriptions for medications and special diet and shall document in that record all observations, consultations, and instructions regarding the resident’s acceptance and tolerance of prescribed diets.

     

    3418.3The dietitian and the Residence Director, or a qualified person designated by the Residence Director, shall review the therapeutic diets of a community residence facility’s residents at least every six (6) months.

     

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Regulation No. 74-15 (June 14, 1974); as amended by the Community Residence Facilities Act of 1977 § 101(e), D.C. Law 2-35, 24 DCR 1458, 1492 (August 19, 1977); as amended by ERRATA published at 51 DCR 9308 (October 1, 2004).