Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to notify the resident and the resident's representative when the facility changed a resident's primary physician choice for one of three residents (R1) reviewed for Resident Rights in the sample of eightFindings include:The facility's Resident Rights Policy, dated 12/24, documents, Each resident will have autonomy and choice, to the maximum extent possible, about how each resident wishes to live his/her everyday life and receipt of care, subject to the community's policies and procedures as long as those policies so not violate any requirement. …
F555 citations in Illinois
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to choose his or her attending physician.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Illinois cites F555 more often than its own record predicts
1.16 times the share F555 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Illinois in 2025, this is the portion that was F555.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Illinois surveyors wrote
F555 findings written in Illinois, 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.
The short window
Recent years
| Year | Share of Illinois citations | vs expected |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.02% | 2.62× |
| 2025 | 0.01% | 1.16× |
Shares of citations, not counts: earlier years hold fewer inspections.
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