The facility reported a census of 100 residents with eight residents sampled and one resident reviewed for proper discharge from facility. The facility failed to readmit Resident (R) 77 back into the facility. The likelihood for a serious adverse outcome existed, due to the threat to R77's continuity of care, feelings of insecurity to his safety in not having a place to discharge to after the facility had been providing his care for the past two years and four months. The negative psychosocial impact is significant and traumatic, with R77s history of having to live in a men's shelter. …
F626 citations in Kansas
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 — 2025
Kansas cites F626 more often than its own record predicts
1.07 times the share F626 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Kansas in 2025, 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 Kansas surveyors wrote
F626 findings written in Kansas, 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.
The facility identified a census of 98 residents. The sample included eight residents with one reviewed for discharge. Based on interviews and record review, the facility failed to allow Resident (R)1 to return to the facility after the facility non-emergently transferred him to the Emergency Department (ED) for a psychiatric evaluation, on 06/27/22. The facility further failed to allow R1 to return to the facility pending and during the appeals process as required. As a result of this failure, R1 remained in an inpatient hospital setting since the transfer on 06/27/22, greater than four months, as the hospital could not find alternative placement. Due to these failures, cognitively impaired R1, who was unable to make decisions, remained homeless. …
The facility identified a census of 36 residents. The sample included four residents reviewed for admissions, discharge and transfers. Based on record review and interviews, the facility failed to permit Resident(R)1 to return to the facility after a hospitalization while his appeal was ongoing. This placed R1 at risk for impaired ability to receive his required care and services. Findings included: - R1's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) listed diagnoses of: left sided hemiparesis and hemiplegia following a cerebral vascular accident (limited or total immobility of ones left side caused by a stroke, lack of blood flow to the brain), neuralgia/neuritis (severe pain due to damaged nerves that causes severe burning pain), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD-a chronic… …
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