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      Enable Individual Infant Menu Records

      Individual infant reporting allows your centers to record menus for each, individual infant in KidKare. This not only may meet a state reporting requirement, but it also allows centers to account for infants at differing developmentally ready status. When you enable this feature, the Infant Menu set on the Daily Menu page in KidKare or in the Record Menu window becomes the default menu for all infants marked in attendance at a meal. Centers can then make adjustments, as needed, when recording meal counts on the Attendance & Meal Counts page in KidKare.

      Once infant meal counts and menus are recorded in KidKare, you can print the Infant Feeding report in KidKare. This report lists the menu served to each infant at each meal for the day, and each infant is listed on a separate page. 

      Note that individual infant menus do not affect claims processing. The default infant menu will be the menu used for processing claims and determining disallowances. The only claim error that individual infant menus affect is Error 103. Changes made to individual infant menus must be made directly in KidKare.

      To enable this requirement:

      1. From the menu to the left, click the Administration.

      2. Select Manage Policies. The Manage Policies window opens.

      3. Click  next to M. Menus.

      4. Click  next to M.16.

      5. Click the Policy Value drop-down menu and select Y.

        Note: If you operate in multiple states, click the State Code drop-down menu and select the state to which this applies. If it should apply to all states you serve, select All.

      6. Click Save.

       

      Infant Menus Video Tutorial

      Watch the video below to learn more about how your centers can use this feature in KidKare. Note that this video covers a KidKare setting for independent centers that do not apply to your centers. This is clearly stated in the video. All other functionality applies.

       

      Print Individual Infant Menus Records

      If you have enabled individual infant menu reporting, you can print individual infant menus. The Infant Feeding Report lists menus for each infant served and includes the following for each meal:

      • Meal Components
      • Food Served by Component
      • Quantity Required by Component
      • Quantity Served by Component

      Quantity served is only included if you have set policy M.01 to Y.

      This report also includes information such as, the center's name and site number, whether the parent accepts center formula and/or food, the infant's age in months, the infant's date of birth, and more.

      Each infant is listed on a separate page. This report is sorted by child name, and you can print it for all active centers or for your selected center.

      To print this report:

      1. From the menu to the left, click Reports.

      2. Click the Select a Category drop-down menu and select Menus.

      3. Click the Select a Report drop-down menu and select Infant Feeding Report.

      4. Click the Select Center drop-down menu and select the center for which to print the report. You can also select All Active Centers to print the report for All Active Centers.

      5. Click the From and To boxes to set the date range for which to print this report.

      6. Click Run. The report downloads as a PDF.