Based on surveyor observation, clinical record review, and staff interview, the facility failed to ensure residents were free from misappropriation of property relative to a narcotic medication for 1 of 1 resident reviewed with an opened medication bottle of Morphine Sulfate solution that had been found to be missing 1 milliliter (mL) of medication, but had not been administered to the prescribed resident, Resident ID #6.Findings are as follows:Review of a facility policy titled Controlled Substances last revised in November of 2022, states in part, Controlled substance inventory is monitored and reconciled to identify loss or potential diversion in a manner that minimizes the time between loss/diversion and detection/follow-up.Nursing staff count controlled medication inventory at the end… …
F602 citations in Rhode Island
Misappropriation and exploitation · Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies
Protect each resident from the wrongful use of the resident's belongings or money.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2023
Rhode Island cites F602 less often than its own record predicts
0.59 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Rhode Island in 2023, this is the portion that was F602.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Rhode Island surveyors wrote
F602 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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