Colleen Crowley This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. In The Spotlight at Computrition

   www.computrition.com/people.ht - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/24/2001   Last Visited: 4/4/2002

   Recently our marketing team interviewed Greg Wolf, Production Manager, and Colleen Crowley, Diet Office Supervisor, at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois.
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   Greg and Colleen have been Computrition users since 1996 and are using the complete "Classic Computrition" (text-based) nutrition care and foodservice management systems.
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   Colleen: We have seen a substantial decrease in the amount of time spent analyzing recipes. In the past, this process was done manually and was time consuming and inconsistent. We recently re-wrote our patient menus and we were able to analyze all of our menus in a matter of minutes using the MENRANAL program. This gave us instant information to ensure that our potluck (house) choices fell within the therapeutic guidelines for each diet type. It is also wonderful to have this information available for public health inspections. They are quite impressed when you can hand them a detailed analysis in the blink of an eye. Due to a major kitchen remodeling that took place in December of 2000, we were forced to completely change all of our patient menus twice in the past 6 months.
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   Colleen: Utilizing the software in innovative ways has become a mission for us! In every brainstorming session we have, we attempt to push the limit and develop procedures to use the Computrition software in ways not originally intended. We recently converted our adult ADA diets to the consistent carbohydrate method. We changed all of our assignments in the DORECMAN program so that all carbohydrate-containing foods were grouped together as "CHO choices." This offers more flexibility to our patients and saves our Nutrition Techs time adjusting meal patterns based on what the patient feels like eating from day to day. This is helping us to improve patient satisfaction and compliance. We are currently developing a procedure to utilize the DOCHGRPT program to identify patients who have had a diet change and offer them a select menu for the current meal.