Based on facility policy review, medical record review, hospital documentation review, and interview, the facility failed to permit 1 of 3 sampled residents (Resident #4) reviewed for discharges to return to the facility after hospitalization. The findings included: 1. Review of the facility's policy titled, Transfer/Discharge Notice, revised 2/3/2025, revealed, .The facility is committed to ensuring that all transfers and discharges are conducted in a manner that respects the rights .of residents .while complying with federal and state regulations .The facility must permit each resident to remain in the facility, and not .discharge the resident from the facility unless .The transfer or discharge is necessary for the resident's welfare and the resident's needs cannot be met in the… …
F626 citations in Tennessee
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
Tennessee cites F626 more often than its own record predicts
2.04 times the share F626 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Tennessee 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 Tennessee surveyors wrote
F626 findings written in Tennessee, 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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