SNO is rich in dietary management features, and it's all available online.

The SNO Dietary Management solution includes feature-sets that will improve how you do your job, such as:

• Tray Card Processing – Make tray cards more accurate and sanitary. Eliminate the need to wash, dry, sort, and manually update plastic cards. With SNO, you print a fresh card each meal for each resident, and our tray card includes a section for special notes (for example, “Needs transfer assistance” or “No foods touching” or a picture of the resident). You can print 3 or more days of cards ahead. SNO automatically sorts them for you by date, meal, dining location, and resident. Since SNO’s tray cards are meal-specific, if a resident dislikes chili, it will not show up on a breakfast tray card. Plus, with less information than typically needed on plastic cards that must cover all meals/supplements, SNO cards are easier to read quickly and accurately when in the tray line, therefore, they reduce errors and liability risk for your facility.


• Resident Diet Management – Track individual residents’ dietary restrictions, allergies, and meal- and day-specific preferences. For example, a resident might like grape juice with every breakfast, water with every lunch and dinner, and milk with every supplement snack. The same resident might also like scrambled eggs for breakfast Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a cheese omelet on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday – and wants dessert only on Sundays but can not have desserts with strawberries since she’s allergic to strawberries. All this detail is stored for you in SNO and can be changed in seconds or printed out at any time in the form of tray cards, group or individual reports, or self-adhesive labels that can be affixed to snacks with name, diet, supplement, wing, room, bed, date.


• Resident Weight Management – Monitor resident weight changes by tracking the percentage of change at one-, three-, six-, and twelve-month intervals. SNO allows for unlimited weight entries for each resident and includes easy-to-print reports on weight changes, and SNO triggers significant weight changes for you (both weight losses and weight gains). SNO also accommodates daily and weekly weight changes.


• Menu and Meal Planning – Select from 86,000+ menu extensions and three 6-week menu cycles. SNO includes both a cost-effective menu level and a more expensive menu level and enables you to make any custom changes to accommodate diabetics, renals, and other therapeutic diets. You can also customize for regional food preferences (for example, Eggs & Grits in the South, Eggs Benedict in the West). For combination nursing home and rehabilitation centers, there is an increasing age gap in residents, and SNO makes it easy for you to meet the more youthful residents’ requests for spicier, more “trendy” foods at the same time that you serve older patients more bland, comfort-type foods. You can also address diversity in cultural and ethnic likes and dislikes in the resident population, and SNO tracks individual residents’ need for different food consistencies (regular, mechanical soft, pureed, liquid, etc.) and for special eating utensil.


• Recipe Planning – Choose from 3,000+ dietician-developed recipes with the SmartRecipesTM features that automatically scale recipes for dietary managers by calculating quantities based upon the exact meal census and pro-rating quantities to accommodate consistency adjustments when necessary (for example, from solid to soft, quantities typically change) and the SmartAlternativesTM feature that enables alternative options to accommodate renal, diabetic, allergic, and other special diets and patient preference requests (such as “nothing spicy,” “nothing made with tomatoes,” etc).


• Production Management – Improve efficiency of your food production and daily kitchen processes with SNO reports. Post each meal or day’s SNO recipes on your bulletin board or clip at your kitchen staff’s stations. Print other SNO meal- or daily-specific reports that help with daily production: Regular Diet Counts, Diet Counts, Dislike Counts, Preference Counts, Beverage Counts, Counts for Tube Feedings, Counts for Fluid Restriction Diets, Supplement Counts, and more.  


• Food Order & Cost Management – Save money with precision in food ordering since SNO’s Order Guidance form automatically reflects your specific recipe ingredients and calculates exact quantities needed for your total census and numbers of special diets, meals, and number of days, the Order Guidance forms tell kitchen staff which foods to order and precise quantities. Order Guidance forms can be printed to reflect your daily, weekly, or monthly menu plan. To support your budgetary objectives and saving money, SNO also provides food cost estimates based on average price schedules supplied by 3 major food distributors: Sysco, US Foods, and Gordon Food Service.


• Nutritional Calculations – Answer questions quickly from your Director of Nursing, Head Dietician, state inspection agents, or family members on resident diets by printing out reports with nutritional values and other key indicators. SNO includes automatic nutritional calculations for IBW (Ideal Body Weight), BMI (Body Mass Index), BEE (Basil Energy Expenditure), Protein, Fluid, and Calories. 


• Reporting – Become more strategic, organized, and efficient with SNO’s reporting. You can print reports on residents’ diets, kitchen menu plans, menu costs and more for upper management, your Director of Nursing, Head Dietician, or staff meetings. SNO includes hundreds of reports for resident dietary details, nutritional values, tray cards, self-adhesive supplement labels, production and order guidance, recipes, and more.


• Security – Protect your residents’ private data for HIPAA compliance and for internal management controls. SNO encrypts all patient data, and no data is ever deleted from the system. Instead SNO simply marks the record “Inactivated” so that you can always recover the resident record. SNO has an archived audit trail that tracks every change made to a resident’s record including: date of the record change, time changed, user’s name who changed, and the change made. SNO has multiple levels of security and can restrict access to resident data, access to particular fields, and access to reports, based upon either individual user or group user security profiles. SNO allows for an unlimited number of users and each user has a security profile that is password protected.


• Corporate Controls – Reduce liability risk and manage a large number of facilities strategically through the Corporate Reporting feature-set. You can run consolidated corporate-wide reports for all your facilities at the push of a button. You can also define regional territories and give access to a specific region to a regional Registered Dietician or a corporate Registered Dietician who wants to see the data by region. For example, the RD might want to run the “Significant Weight Change” report for all corporate-managed facilities or just a subset of facilities. Since SNO allows you to define 18 user-group levels, you can have one for Corporate Top Executives, other groups for regional dietary management teams (such as Southeast RD Team, Southwest RD Team, etc) or you can assign viewing and change rights to each individual user for each field in the SNO system. With the Corporate Controls feature-set, you can manage the umbrella corporation from one web page and can drill down into details of regions or specific facilities.

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