Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
F678 in Alabama. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Alabama cites F678 more often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share2.74×
2.74 times the share F678 takes of citations nationally.
Share of Alabama citations0.50%
Of every deficiency written in Alabama in 2025, this is the portion that was F678.
Alabama0.50%
National0.18%
Share of all citations that were F678.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F678 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.
J · Immediate jeopardy, isolatedSeptember 2, 2025
Based on record review, interview, facility policy review, and a review of the American Heart Association's Summary of High-Quality CPR [cardiopulmonary resuscitation] Components for BLS [Basic Life Support] Providers, the failed to ensure staff provided BLS in accordance with accepted guidelines. Specifically, the facility failed to ensure rescue breaths were provided while performing CPR to Resident #104 on [DATE].Failure of the facility to provide high-quality CPR that included chest compressions and rescue breaths during an attempted resuscitation created the likelihood of failed resuscitation efforts and death. …
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