Resources: F-Tags & Food Safety
Food Safety 101: Creating Allergy Friendly Menus at Your Senior Living Community
by Culinary Services Group | Jul 7, 2021
About 10.8% of adults in the United States have food allergies, which means it’s likely that some residents in your healthcare community have a food allergy or intolerance. Ensuring that your dining program can accommodate these residents is essential. The Centers...
Food Safety 101: Are Your Residents Eating Enough During the Day?
by Culinary Services Group | May 12, 2021
Welcome back to our F-tag food safety series. In previous installments of this series, we’ve discussed how to prepare your kitchen for inspections, how to ensure menus meet resident needs, how to create meals that match resident assessment plans, and more. In this...
Food Safety 101: Serving Meals that Match Resident Assessment Plans
by Culinary Services Group | Feb 10, 2021
It’s time for another installment of our F-tag food safety series. This week we’ll be discussing tag F-805. This tag is about serving meals that meet residents’ needs according to their assessed ability to chew and swallow foods. More specifically, this tag focuses on...
Food Safety 101: Preparing Food That is Palatable, Attractive, and Safe
by Culinary Services Group | Jan 13, 2021
In this next installment of our F-Tag food safety series, we’re going to discuss tag F-804. This tag is all about how the food is prepared, held after preparation, plated, presented, and kept at safe and appetizing temperatures. It states that: Food must be prepared...
Food Safety 101: How to Ensure Your Menus Meet Resident Needs
by Culinary Services Group | Dec 9, 2020
In this next installment of our F-Tag food safety series, we’re going to dive into tag F-803. This tag focuses on menus and nutritional adequacy. It states that menus at your senior living community must: Meet the nutritional needs of residents in accordance with...
Food Safety 101: How to Prepare Your Kitchen for an Inspection
by Culinary Services Group | Nov 11, 2020
Last month, we wrote a blog post detailing everything that food inspectors are looking for when they come to inspect the kitchens at your senior living community. The inspector is responsible for making sure that your team is complying with the 15 Food and Nutrition...










The Quiet Risks Behind F812 Deficiencies
Once you let the inspector interpret what something means, odds are they’re going to interpret it not in your favor.
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