Based on interviews and facility policy review the facility failed to inform residents/resident representatives that their chosen attending physician was unable to meet requirements as the facility sought to seek alternate physician for provision of care and treatment without attempt to work with the residents' chosen attending physicians or mediate differences for nine (9) of eleven (11) sampled residents; Resident #2, Residents #3, Resident #4, Resident #5, Resident #7, Resident #8, Resident #9, Resident #10 and Resident #11.Findings Included:Policy review of the facility policy titled, Standard of Care with Revision Date 9/15/22 revealed, It is the policy of this facility to provide a standard of treatment and care most beneficial to residents.Regardless of payment methods, all… …
F555 citations in Mississippi
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
Mississippi cites F555 more often than its own record predicts
7.44 times the share F555 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Mississippi 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 Mississippi surveyors wrote
F555 findings written in Mississippi, 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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