Job Description
Dietary Associate-Mount Sinai Hospital
Under the direction of the Patient Services Manager, responsible for the diet office functions including printing, organizing and sorting patient menus by nursing units. Updates diet changes and missed meals prior to each meal. Maintain a dialog with Clinical Dietitians regarding patient's special dietary preferences and requirements. Monitor interface of TDS/CBORD and enter/review appropriate patient data as indicated for Quality Improvement purposes and enhancement of patient satisfaction.
Responsibilities

• Review patient census information and work as a liaison to CTS for meal set up.
• Obtain changes in patient diet and room status as needed. Communicates effectively with unit staff in regard to changes and as assigned print menu changes organize by nursing units.
• Print as assigned daily patient menus for all nursing units that are not on TDS & CBORD or do not participate in PCD.
• Organize printed menus by nursing unit prior to delivery.
• Distribute all printed menus to nursing units.
• Enter patient meal preference by using bedside menu entry system. Menu preference information entered using a hand held Palm.
• Deliver truck to unit.
• Deliver meal trays to the patient's bedside.
• Retrieves soiled trays from the patient bedside and return food truck to the kitchen.
• Keep menu tally and totals.
• Insert new menus and pull discharges.
• Check and restock floor supplies.
• Maintain communication with the clinical dietitians regarding patients and special orders.
• Answer phones in a prompt and courteous manner and record calls on the Diet Office log as necessary.
• Remain available to patients at meal times in order to ensure patient satisfaction by making sure patients receive correct order.
• Maintain a safe, clean and functional work environment.
• Maintain a professional appearance and speak in a courteous manner using good guest relations' skills.
• Maintain patient confidentiality as required by MSMC.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications
Requirements:

• Must have a High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Some college and/or higher academic standing preferred.

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSH
SEIU 1199 at Mount Sinai Hospital, 208 - Food Service - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital
About Us
Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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"About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

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