Based on interview and record review, the facility failed to honor residents' right to refuse a room transfer when their payor source changed for 1 of 2 residents (Resident 1) reviewed for choices. This deficient practice placed residents at risk for feeling vulnerable, disheartened and powerless. Findings included . Review of the undated facility policy, titled Room Change/Roommate Assignment, showed residents had the right to refuse a room transfer if the purpose was to relocate a resident from a Skilled Nursing unit (a living unit with the focus of regaining strength, endurance and independence through the skilled services of nursing and therapy) to a Long-Term Care (LTC) unit [a living unit with the focus of being a home with staff assistance to complete Activities of Daily Living… …
F560 citations in Washington
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Protect a residents' right to refuse some types of non-requested transfers within the nursing home.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Washington cites F560 more often than its own record predicts
2.85 times the share F560 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Washington in 2024, this is the portion that was F560.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Washington surveyors wrote
F560 findings written in Washington, 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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