In addition to the security controls and flexible customization options in SNO, the top ten reasons to sign up for SNO are:
- Raves from Residents – Track residents’ individual preferences for both meals and supplements. Modify in seconds.
- More Accurate, Cleaner Tray Cards – Stop washing, drying, sorting and manually updating plastic cards. Instantly print fresh, accurate tray tickets for each resident, each meal, and cards are automatically sorted in serving order as they print.
- Weight Tracking for Residents – SNO helps you monitor resident weight changes by tracking the percentage of change at one, three, six, and twelve month intervals, and SNO triggers significant changes.
- Menu Variety – 86,000+ menu extensions. Use any or all of SNO’s menu extensions and plan more effectively with SNO’s three 6-week dietician-developed menu cycles, with SmartAlternatives™ for special diets.
- 3,000+ Recipes – Eliminate the guesswork in your food ordering and preparation with SNO’s quantity scaling options. Reduce food waste and overproduction since SNO recipes automatically calculate quantities based on your exact resident census, specific diets, and ingredient lists…and SNO gives you HACCP instructions for preparation.
- HIPAA Compliance – SNO protects resident privacy with data encryption and password-protected profiles for system users. Management with security access can produce time-stamped audit trails for all changes made in the system and by whom.
- Rapid Answers for Inspectors, Family Members, Your Boss – Print out patient, facility or multiple-facility reports verifying resident diets, quantities served, resident weight changes and more.
- Food Cost Savings – Using food costs from 3 major food distributors, you can estimate your food bills before you buy. Eliminate over-purchasing food goods with SNO’s Order Guide based on precise recipe quantities and specific numbers of therapeutic meal types (diabetic, renal, etc). Eliminate food waste with Production Guides that help cooks prepare accurate quantities.
- Food Tracking Values – SNO includes automatic nutritional calculations for IBW (Ideal Body Weight), BMI (Body Mass Index), BEE (Basil Energy Expenditure), Protein, Fluid, and Caloric Needs.
- Corporate Controls – For multiple-facility operations, SNO includes reporting tools for business intelligence, enabling management to analyze food costs by facility across nation, monitor projected or actual food budgets, and track weight loss and other critical resident factors nationally or by facility. SNO’s security also enables management to separate management of multiple facilities by regions of the country, by dietician, or by any other factor.