California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 5 - Licensing and Certification of Health Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Clinics, and Referral Agencies
Chapter 1 - General Acute Care Hospitals
Article 9 - Regulations Specific to Small and Rural Hospitals
Section 70907 - Dietetic Service Staff
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
Section 70275 shall be replaced by the following:
(a) A registered dietitian shall be employed on a full-time, part-time or consulting basis for approval of all menus and participation in development or revision of dietetic policies and procedures and in planning and conducting in-service education programs.
(b) Sufficient dietetic service personnel shall be employed, oriented, trained and their working hours scheduled to provide for the nutritional needs of the patients and to maintain the dietetic service areas. If dietetic service employees are assigned duties in other service areas, those duties shall not interfere with the sanitation, safety or time required for dietetic work assignments.
(c) A record shall be maintained of the number of persons by job title employed full or part-time in dietetic services and the number of hours each works weekly.
(d) Hygiene of Dietetic Service Staff.
1. New section filed 2-26-90 as an emergency; operative 2-26-90 (Register 90, No. 9). A Certificate of Compliance is not required to be transmitted and this emergency regulation remains in force and effect pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 442.3(b) and 442.6(e). Issuing agency: Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 442.3 and 442.6, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section 442.3, Health and Safety Code.
