Based on facility policy review, medical record review, facility documentation, and interview the facility failed to promptly notify family of a room change and of the resident's transportation to a cancelled appointment for 1 Resident (Resident #2) of 5 residents reviewed for resident rights. The findings include: Review of the facility's Policy titled, Notification of Changes undated showed .The purpose of this policy is to ensure the facility promptly informs the resident .resident's representative when there is a change requiring notification .Circumstances requiring notification include .A transfer .from the facility .A change of room .assignment .Additional considerations .Competent individuals .the facility must still .notify resident's representative, if known . …
F559 citations in Tennessee
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Honor the resident's right to share a room with spouse or roommate of choice and receive written notice before a change is made.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2023
Tennessee cites F559 more often than its own record predicts
2.31 times the share F559 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Tennessee in 2023, this is the portion that was F559.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Tennessee surveyors wrote
F559 findings written in Tennessee, 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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