Based on record review, interviews, and review of the policy titled Bed-Holds and Returns, the facility failed to allow one of three residents (R) (R2) reviewed for transfer/discharge to return to the facility after a facility-initiated transfer to the hospital for behavior evaluation, in which the hospital determined the resident did not pose a danger to himself or others. Findings include: Review of the policy titled Bed-Holds and Returns, revised March 2022 indicated, Policy Interpretation and Implementation: Number 7: The resident will be permitted to return to an available bed in the location of the facility that he or she previously resided. …
F626 citations in Georgia
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.
Against expectation — 2023
Georgia cites F626 more often than its own record predicts
2.88 times the share F626 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Georgia in 2023, this is the portion that was F626.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Georgia surveyors wrote
F626 findings written in Georgia, 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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