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Food and Nutrition Services
 Quality. It's a topic that has taken center stage in management seminars in recent years. But when we talk about quality in food service, the bottom line is delivering nutritious, appetizing meals on time, every time.
First and foremost at Boundary Community Hospital, we "know our residents". Each of us expects to eat foods we like in our own homes and our residents and patients deserve the same. The Nutritional Services Department provides breakfast, lunch, dinner, and an array of daytime and bedtime snacks to our residents in the nursing home and patients in the hospital. We also cater barbeques in the summer, full buffets on holidays, resident birthdays, and other special event meals all year through. In addition, a cafeteria lunch service is available for staff guests, and family during the week. We emphasize "home cooking" and fresh baked rolls and desserts. The kitchen is staffed from 4:30am to 8:00pm every day.
Food and Nutrition Services employs a staff of a Registered Dietician, a registered Certified Dietary Manager, and 12 certified Sanitation, Safety, and Food Handling aides. We are members of the health care team, providing nutritional support to residents, patients, and community members. Our Dietician provides outpatient nutritional counseling and sponsors a local diabetic education support group, which meets monthly in conjunction with the Panhandle Health District.
Food safety is no accident and it is of paramount importance to this facility. All employees conform to the best sanitation practices in the food service industry to ensure the safety of the food provided to our clients. At BCH we identify possible hazards that either exist now or could develop, and implement procedures to control or eliminate them. To that end, we have the HACCP system in place. HACCP stands for Hazards Analysis Critical Control Points. It is a proactive food safety system that works to prevent food contamination before it occurs, and monitors all aspects of the flow of food in our facility. We are continually establishing higher food, nutrition, and safety standards for quality purposes at BCH and have received superior ratings from state and federal inspectors.
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