ANFP Dialogue - News & Notes for ANFP Training Program Faculty
 
I hope you are enjoying a great start to the fall semester. Please see updates from ANFP below, along with our comments provided to CMS on the proposed changes to the Long-Term Care CoP’s Conditions of Participation/Medicare and Medicaid Programs Requirement for Long-Term Care Facilities.
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On July 16, 2019, CMS posted a document of PROPOSED changes to the Long-Term Care CoP's Conditions of Participation/Medicare and Medicaid Programs Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities.
 
One of the items CMS is proposing changes to is the education requirement for Director of Food and Nutrition Services. Their rationale is that stakeholders are …"concerned about a workforce shortage of certified dietary managers and the financial costs imposed on existing experienced staff to obtain specialized training".
 
CMS acknowledges that set standards for the person leading the department is important and are putting forth suggestions for how to better reduce the burden by revising the standards to increase flexibility, the specifics being that a minimum standard be set.
 
It is important for everyone to understand that the current rules are still in effect and this is only a proposal that is open for comments. Once the comment period is over, CMS will review and thoroughly vet them before any decisions and rule changes will be made. This is a common political process.
 
See the response from ANFP HERE.
ANFP Approved Training Program Marketing - Coming Soon!
Stay tuned for information we will share about marketing language and tools you can use on your website to easily convey information regarding the CDM exam and ANFP membership to your students and prospective students!
Important Updates
Staff Updates
Staff updates are due September 20. Please provide updates to Jenny Rios by this deadline to help us keep our data correct. New instructors that are not on this list will not receive their copy of Nutrition and Foodservice Edge magazine and will not have access to the Instructor Resource Center.
 
Annual Maintenance Fees
Annual maintenance fees will be sent out in October and will be due in December. Please look for the invoice in your e-mail inbox soon.
Pathway IIIb
A new pathway of eligibility was recently added. This is offered to Pathway I programs that could offer only their didactic portion of their curriculum. This is for students who already have two or more full-time equivalent years of institutional foodservice management experience.  
 
Please see the language below listed on the CBDM Pathways of Eligibility:
 
Pathway III(b): for graduates of the classroom portion of an ANFP-approved foodservice manager training program, who also have two years of non-commercial foodservice management experience. Candidates must submit a copy of a certificate of course completion, their name must appear on the official graduate listing that is sent to ANFP by the college/school and they must submit employment verification with exam application.
 
Please reach out with any questions about offering this as an additional option for your students who qualify.
 
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Thank you,
 

Cindy Zemko, BS, CDM, CFPP
Director of Education
 
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