Handling Food Safety
When a patient arrives to a hospital, they can be malnourished, possibly making a difficult situation even worse. Hospitals have the responsibility of taking corrective action, often times in the form of proper nutrition with attention to calories, fat and food. To do this, they need to ensure that the food they use to nourish their patients is safe in order to prevent further illness.
Proper food nutrition requires consistent time and temperature monitoring of the food in storage to thwart contamination. The food should be stored and served at proper levels, from the time it remains in storage to the moment it is given to a member of the community. Food storage and food handling are quintessential aspects to keeping our food safe and our communities healthy. This responsibility does not sit lightly on the shoulders of those involved, as it takes time and energy to consistently monitor and document accurate storage levels, and ensure the quality of the food is maintained. To this, many hospitals look to continuous monitoring systems to help share the burden of this responsibility.
A Partnership in Quality
Immediate. Flexible. Complete.
To maintain nutritional quality, we begin with a 24/7 continuous monitoring system complete with immediate alert notification via e-mail, text or phone. This means a member of the team gets notified the moment a system enters into alarm, granting them time to properly address the situation, and react in a manner that saves the product involved. No more manual checks for temperature readings or the possibility of missing an outage. The automated system will continually monitor this information for you and alert you in real-time through the software located on your computer system.
Whether you have a few refrigerators or hundreds, no two facilities are identical, and customization is the key to ensuring your continuous monitoring system is where you need it, when you need it. For this reason, alerting can be varied by department, piece of equipment, time of day, day of the week, condition parameters, delivery method and escalation protocols.
The flexibility and scalability of the system means that it can monitor any location, from cold storage to ovens, in any size facility. From a small, single facility, up to a complex, multi-location facility, your continuous monitoring system can adapt and grow as you do. With the option to function as a standalone system or a fully networked environment that can simultaneously monitor hundreds of appliances, you do not need to worry when it comes time to add refrigerators, freezers, or other appliances in your facility. The system has unlimited capacity, making it easy to adjust to where you are and what you need.
With so much to worry about it, finding time can be the biggest burden of all. Let a Mesa Continuous Monitoring system take over the responsibility for you. The peace of mind that comes with knowing your hospital’s food and nutrition is under the dedicated care of a CM system will give you the time you need to focus your energy elsewhere.
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On-Site Spares & Emergency Parts
Establishing an inventory of on-site spares and emergency parts is important to minimize potential downtime. Select parts or components may have a long procurement lead time, and there may also be times during the year when your Continuous Monitoring (CM) manufacturer is not able to process…
Dedicated Monitoring
Conditions
Temperature
Humidity
Differential Pressure
CO2
O2
Open/Close Alarm Contacts
Air Velocity
Power Line Monitoring
Door Switches
Flow
Particle Counters
Light
Equipment
Refrigerators
Freezers
Ultra Lows
Incubators
Liquid Nitrogen Units
Stability Chambers
Ovens
Shakers/Agitators
0-5V and 4-20mA Outputs
Our Clients Include
Regulatory & Compliance
The Joint Commission (JCAHO) strives to improve quality of care and patient safety. Their Accreditation and Certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality. Organizations must pass inspections based on regulatory compliance, and acceptance reflects their commitment to specific performance standards.
Mission: To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value.
Using the Robust Process Improvement ® (RPI) to solve health care’s most critical safety and quality problems, the JCAHO has partnered with some of the nation’s leading hospitals and health systems.
This page provides links to 20 recently posted food recalls that may be due to mislabeled products of potential health hazards.
NIST, a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a measurement standards laboratory. Their research helps to advance the nation’s technology infrastructure and helps facilities improve their products and services.
Vision: NIST will be the world’s leader in creating critical measurement solutions and promoting equitable standards. Our efforts stimulate innovation, foster industrial competitiveness, and improve the quality of life.
