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.
F693 in Colorado. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Colorado cites F693 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.80×
0.80 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of Colorado citations0.56%
Of every deficiency written in Colorado in 2025, this is the portion that was F693.
Colorado0.56%
National0.70%
Share of all citations that were F693.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Colorado surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in Colorado, 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, isolatedJune 10, 2021
Based on observations, interviews and record review, the facility failed to have an effective system in place to ensure two or four residents reviewed (#45 and #35) out of seven residents, received the appropriate treatment and services to prevent complications of enteral feeding, such as aspiration pneumonia, diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, metabolic abnormalities, and nasal-pharyngeal ulcers.
Specifically:
Record review and observations on 6/2/21 at 9:20 a.m., 6/3/21 at 9:30 a.m., and 6/7/21 at 10:12 a.m., revealed the facility failed to follow facility policy, standards of practice, care plan directives and physician orders [MEDICAL RECORD OR PHYSICIAN ORDER] .
-Resident #45 had a history of [MEDICAL RECORD OR PHYSICIAN ORDER] . …
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedJuly 14, 2026
Based on record review and interviews the facility failed to ensure residents with a feeding tube received appropriate treatment and services for two (#6 and #30) of three residents reviewed with a feeding tube out of 35 sample residents.Specifically, the facility failed to:-Ensure timely administration of Resident #30's water flush; and,-Ensure timely administration of Resident #6's bolus tube feeding
Findings include:
I. Professional reference
According to [NAME], P.A., [NAME], A.G., et.al., Fundamentals of Nursing, 10 ed. (2021), E. [NAME], St. Louis Missouri, pp. 605-606. …
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