Based on interviews, review of the facility's policy titled DISCHARGE AND TRANSFER POLICIES - INVOLUNTARY, a complaint received by the Alabama State Survey Agency and Resident Identifier (RI) #1's medical and hospital records, the facility failed to allow Resident Identifier (RI) #1 to return to the facility. On 9/2/2020, the facility sent RI #1 to a local hospital for evaluation of his/her [MEDICAL CONDITION]. When the resident was cleared to return to the facility, the facility would not let the resident return, stating they could not meet the resident's needs. There was no documentation within RI #1's medical record by his/her physician as to why the facility was unable to meet the needs of the resident or an attempt to implement the recommendations from the hospital. …
F626 citations in Alabama
Resident Rights Deficiencies
Permit a resident to return to the nursing home after hospitalization or therapeutic leave that exceeds bed-hold policy.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
No F626 citations were recorded in Alabama for 2025. That means none appear in the CMS file for that year — not that the requirement does not apply.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F626 findings written in Alabama, 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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