483.60 - Food and Nutrition Services
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A facility must ensure that a feeding assistant provides dining assistance only for residents who have no complicated feeding problems. Complicated feeding problems include, but are not limited to, difficulty swallowing, recurrent lung aspirations, and tube or parenteral/IV feedings.
Source: CMS State Operations Manual, Appendix PP | 42 CFR § 483.60