Based on the review of policy and procedure with the institutional program director (employee #6), it was determined that facility failed to establish the structure to comply with the residents' right to self-administer medications if the interdisciplinary team determined that this practice is clinically appropriate. Findings include: During the survey process it was request to the facility the resident right manual and the personnel in charge to monitor compliance with resident rights and it was found the following: 1. No personnel was assigned to be in charge or monitor compliance of facility with resident rights. 2. …
F554 citations in Puerto Rico
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Puerto Rico cites F554 more often than its own record predicts
1.93 times the share F554 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Puerto Rico in 2024, this is the portion that was F554.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Puerto Rico surveyors wrote
F554 findings written in Puerto Rico, 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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