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Menu Planning in LTC & Canada’s Food Guide
New Resource: Menu Planning in Long Term Care and Canada's Food Guide (2019)
Nutrition Resources For COVID-19 Patients
CMTF and CNS are pleased to announce the creation of two nutrition resources that were developed to help patients and their families, and nutrition clinicians across the country.
Apply for funding: Nourish's "COVID-19 Food Rx Fund: Patient Food Insecurity"
Support for health care organizations to meet the needs of their patients for whom the pandemic has created, or is exacerbating, food insecurity.
Survey: Nutrition Care Practices in Primary Care, the Community, and the Hospital
Please complete and forward this survey information throughout your network by May 30, 2020
CMTF has developed two nutrition care pathways to prevent, detect, and treat malnutrition among: older adults living in the community; and people going back to the community after being in the hospital. Please complete and forward this survey about the pathways throughout your network. Deadline: May 30, 2020
New COVID-19 and Nutrition Infographic
CNS is pleased to share a COVID-19 and Nutrition infographic that provides guidance on how to stay strong and healthy through good nutrition. It is available on the Canadian Nutrition Society and Canadian Malnutrition Task Force's websites along with a compilation of other COVID-19 support resources.
COVID-19 Support Resources
As we all try to navigate through this unprecedented and extremely challenging COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF) is compiling a list of resources that may be useful to our network. We will continually update this page as more materials become available.
Job Opportunity
Program Manager (1-year Contract Position) - CNS / CMTF
The Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) along with its standing committee, the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF), is seeking a dynamic and innovative program manager.
Partnership to Standardize Practices for Malnutrition Care in Canadian Hospitals
The Canadian Malnutrition Task Force and the Health Standards Organization are pleased to announce a partnership to develop a national Malnutrition Safety Intervention Standard for detection, treatment and prevention of malnutrition in Canadian hospitals.