Top 10 Valuable Benefits a CDM, CFPP Brings to Your Operation
List Compiled by: ANFP Staff
- A Certified Dietary Manager, Certified Food Protection Professional has passed the nationally-recognized CDM, CFPP Credentialing Exam and fulfilled the requirements needed to maintain certified status.
- A CDM, CFPP maintains their credential through required continuing education, ensuring they stay current with best practices, industry standards and emerging trends in healthcare foodservice.
- The CDM, CFPP credential is recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as the primary qualification for the Director of Food & Nutrition Services in the absence of a full-time dietitian.
- A CDM, CFPP completes education, training, and experience to competently perform the responsibilities of a dietary manager: managing a foodservice operation team, ensuring sanitation and food safety, performing medical nutrition therapy, running business operations, and more.
- CDM, CFPPs are able to lead the foodservice department during challenges of natural disasters, foodborne illness, supply chain difficulties, pandemics, and other incident management issues.
- CDM, CFPPs are experts in foodservice personnel management, which can lead to increased staff engagement, greater employee retention, a more stable environment, and higher client satisfaction.
- Facilities that employ a CDM, CFPP experience a 23% LOWER turnover rate than facilities without a CDM, CFPP.
- A facility that employs a CDM, CFPP has 19% FEWER nutrition and foodservice related tags in nursing home inspections, and are often deficiency-free.
- Facilities that employ a CDM, CFPP have a 44% HIGHER observation of improved patient outcomes when compared to facilities that do not employ a CDM, CFPP.
- Facilities with a CDM, CFPP have a 9% HIGHER star rating compared to facilities without CDM, CFPPs.
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