Based on clinical record review, facility documentation, staff interviews, and policy review, the facility failed to ensure that one resident's representative (#4) was able to exercise her rights regarding decisions about the resident's care. This deficient practice could result in resident's or their representatives not being able to make their own healthcare decisions. Findings include: Resident #4 was admitted to the facility on [DATE], with diagnoses that include Dementia, anxiety, Diabetes mellitus type 2, chronic kidney disease stage 3, dysphagia, weakness, heart failure, and right lower extremity amputation. …
F551 citations in Arizona
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Arizona cites F551 more often than its own record predicts
2.00 times the share F551 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Arizona in 2024, this is the portion that was F551.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Arizona surveyors wrote
F551 findings written in Arizona, 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.
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