Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 449 - Medical and Other Related Facilities
HOSPITALS
Policies and Procedures for Operation of Hospital
Section 449.337 - Dietary services: General requirements

1. A hospital shall provide each patient with a nourishing, palatable, well-balanced diet that meets the daily nutritional and dietary needs of the patient.

2. The menu for a patient must meet the nutritional needs of the patient in accordance with:

3. A hospital shall ensure that not less than three meals are served daily to patients and not more than 15 hours elapse between the evening meal and breakfast served the following day.

4. Nourishment and feeding between meals must be provided as required by diet prescription and must be available to each patient unless otherwise ordered by the physician of the patient.

5. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, menus must be followed. A meal may vary from the planned menu if the change is noted in writing in the records maintained by the dietary services.

6. A hospital shall ensure that the food and religious preferences of a patient are respected to the extent practicable and that substitute food is available through the use of a selective menu or substitutes from appropriate food groups.

7. A hospital shall ensure that persons who are responsible for therapeutic diets have sufficient knowledge of food values to make appropriate substitutions when necessary.