Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 661 - Hospice
Subchapter 6 - Hospice Inpatient Service Requirements
Section 310:661-6-4 - Dietary services

(a) The facility must provide dietary service adequate to meet the dietary needs of the patients. Services may be provided on a contract basis as long as dietary needs of patients are met.

(b) Each facility must serve at least three (3) meals or their equivalent each day at regular times, with not more than fourteen (14) hours between a substantial evening meal and breakfast.

(c) Menus must be planned and followed to balance patient choice with nutritional needs of patients, in accordance with physicians' orders and to the extent medically possible, in accordance with the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

(d) The facility must procure, store, prepare, distribute, and serve all food under sanitary conditions in compliance with Chapter 257 of this Title.

(e) Nourishments are available for all patients at anytime in accordance with approved diet orders.

(f) There must be adequate trained staff available to manage and provide dietary services. A licensed/registered dietitian must be available to provide consultation on patients' dietary needs, supervise services, and ensure medically prescribed special diets are provided as ordered.

(g) The system to be used for dishwashing must be approved by the Department and operated in accordance with approved procedures and requirements of Chapter 257 of this Title.

(h) Garbage and refuse must be kept in durable, easily cleanable, insect-proof and rodent-proof containers that do not leak and do not absorb liquids. Adequate carriers and containers will be provided for the collection and transportation, in a sanitary manner, of garbage and refuse from food service areas of the hospice to the place of disposal in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 257 of this Title.