Ensure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, unless medically necessary, and that incontinent patients receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder functions.
F315 in Alabama. Pick another state for the same tag.
No F315 citations were recorded in Alabama for 2025. That means none appear in the CMS file for that year — not that the requirement does not apply.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F315 findings written in Alabama, one from each severity band recorded here, most serious first.
Severity is as the surveyor wrote it. Some findings had already been corrected before the survey.
G · Actual harm, isolatedJuly 24, 2014
Based on interviews, record review and review of the facility's "Admissions Orders", the facility failed to ensure Resident Identifier (RI) #1, a resident with a history of UTI's (Urinary Tract Infections), Foley Catheter (F/C) was changed in a timely manner after the resident was readmitted to the facility with a F/C on 05/20/14.
On 06/23/14 an order was written to change RI #1's F/C. On 07/10/14, 17 days after the order had been written to change the F/C, and 51 days after RI #1 had been readmitted to the facility, the resident was noted to have dark amber urine and sediment in the F/C tubing. …
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedNovember 16, 2017
Based on observation, interviews and record review, the facility failed to ensure Resident Identifier (RI) #8 had a medical [DIAGNOSES REDACTED].
This affected one of five residents sampled with the use of a catheter.
Findings Include:
RI #8 was readmitted to the facility on [DATE] with an indwelling Foley Catheter. Admitting [DIAGNOSES REDACTED].
A wound assessment completed on 10/31/17 identified the Stage 2 areas to both the right and left inner buttocks had resolved, with one remaining open area, 0.2 x 0.2 (centimeter/cm) related to yeast. …
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