Dietary

Institutional Food Services

Manages the resident's preferences and appropriate substitutions. Subsitutions allow for the time of the day, quantitities and days of the week. Click to enlarge

ADL’s Dietary system analyzes meals, recipes, resident intake, and assists the dietician in developing menus, assessing resident needs, and printing tray cards and food labels. Menu changes, production reports, and nutritional analysis are intuitively easy and available in-house, on demand.

Eliminate using outside services that charge several thousand dollars annually. Quickly calculate and print the meal analysis of the sample menus.

Menu Planning

Create and print menus for the meals for the day, week, and month. Menus include food substitutions for special meal requirements. Total Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) for males and females are printed under the menu.

Food Database

The module includes a sample database of common food items, which can be modified or added to by the user. The complete Federal Handbook #10 is accessible online for reference, and handbook items can be copied to the facility database.

Nutritional Analysis

Analyze meals, menus, recipes, and resident intake to ensure that residents are receiving adequate nutrition and hydration. Reanalyze changes to planned menus immediately.

Profiles

Profiles & Assessments

Create a complete profile of the resident’s dietary needs based on individual preferences and medical necessity. Included with the system is a facility library of basic menus that can be tailored to best suit each resident’s specific needs. Further simplifying the process, ADL’s Assessments module can automatically create an Initial Dietary Profile and produce Dietary assessments as needed.

Tray Cards

Color Coded Tray Cards, Labels

Comparing the resident’s profile with the current menu, the system prints personalized, color-coded Tray Cards (color-coding helps tray line employees quickly identify which meal type to place on the tray) in several formats. Preferred foods are automatically substituted for menu items that the resident dislikes or is allergic to. Cards can be printed on demand or in advance, with multiple sorting options available. Labels can be printed for snacks and supplemental feeding, with multiple sorting options available.

Intake Studies

To perform intake studies, select meals for the day and enter the percentage of the meal consumed by the resident (use our Touch screen CNA Assignment module). The program automatically calculates the nutritional content of foods consumed and prints a comparison with RDAs. The results of the resident’s nutritional analysis can be printed for the chart.

Meal Costing and Production Reports

Based on facility recipes and planned menus, the system calculates per-meal and per-day meal costs, which can be automatically posted to General Ledger and Accounts Payable modules. Production reports offer detailed information regarding the quantity and cost of required ingredients by food class or by group.