Based on record review and staff and resident interview, it has been determined that the facility failed to ensure the resident has the right to choose his or her attending physician for 3 out of 4 residents reviewed related to physician choice, Resident ID #s 2, 3, and 5.Findings are as follows:Review of a community reported complaint submitted to the Rhode Island Department of Health on 8/7/2025 alleges in part, .My facility has a new policy of switching providers when residents go to the hospital. They don't inform the family or resident of the change .1) Record review revealed Resident ID #2 was admitted to the facility in April of 2023 with diagnoses including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease, anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder. …
F555 citations in Rhode Island
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
Rhode Island cites F555 more often than its own record predicts
13.42 times the share F555 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island surveyors wrote
F555 findings written in Rhode Island, 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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