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 Georgia. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Georgia cites F693 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.82×
0.82 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of Georgia citations0.57%
Of every deficiency written in Georgia in 2025, this is the portion that was F693.
Georgia0.57%
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 Georgia surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in Georgia, 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.
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedJuly 30, 2026
Based on observation, interviews, and record review, the facility failed to ensure that one of 16 residents (R) (R6) who required enteral nutrition through a gastrostomy tube received the tube feeding in accordance with the physician's orders. Specifically, the facility failed to ensure R6's prescribed Jevity 1.5 was administered at 60 milliliters (mL) per hour for the ordered 22-hour duration when the feeding was disconnected and the feeding pump was turned off during the prescribed administration period. This deficient practice resulted in R6 not receiving the prescribed enteral feeding and required practitioner intervention, including orders for additional, immediate enteral nutrition. …
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