Based on record review, observation, and interview, the facility failed to ensure safe and appropriate administration of enteral nutrition (the introduction of nutrients directly into the stomach by a soft plastic feeding tube surgically implanted directly through the abdomen) and medication was free of possible complications for 1 sampled resident (#51) and 1 unsampled resident (#77), out of 2 residents reviewed with feeding tubes. Specifically, the facility failed to: 1) Check Resident #51's gastric residual volume prior to initiating enteral nutrition; 2) Ensure Resident #51's head-of-bed remained elevated to an angle of 30 degrees or higher during active feeding; 3) Follow a physician order for flushing Resident #51's feeding tube before and after medication administration; and 4) Use… …
F693 citations in Alaska
Tube feeding · Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Alaska cites F693 less often than its own record predicts
0.76 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Alaska in 2025, this is the portion that was F693.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alaska surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in Alaska, 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 short window
Recent years
| Year | Share of Alaska citations | vs expected |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.73% | 0.97× |
| 2025 | 0.53% | 0.76× |
Shares of citations, not counts: earlier years hold fewer inspections.
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