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 Kansas. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Kansas cites F693 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.60×
0.60 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of Kansas citations0.42%
Of every deficiency written in Kansas in 2025, this is the portion that was F693.
Kansas0.42%
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 Kansas surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in Kansas, 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, isolatedJuly 18, 2019
The facility had a census of 66 residents. The sample included 4 residents. Based on observation, record review, and interview the facility failed to provide competent cares and services to implement the use of a feeding tube (tube for introducing high calorie fluids into the stomach) for 1 of 4 sampled residents. Staff cut off the port end (allows fluid access into the feeding tube) of Resident #2's feeding tube, which displaced the feeding tube, and caused feeding tube fluids to enter his/her abdominal cavities instead of the stomach. …
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedAugust 5, 2026
Based on observation, interviews, and record review, the facility failed to ensure Resident (R) 48's feeding tube (G-tube: tube surgically placed through an artificial opening into the stomach) was monitored for placement prior to administration of medications and enteral nutrition (provision of nutrients through the gastrointestinal tract when the resident cannot ingest, chew, or swallow food). Findings included:- R45's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) revealed diagnoses of quadriplegia (inability to move the arms, legs, and trunk of the body below the level of an associated injury to the spinal cord) and dysphagia (swallowing difficulty).R45's 09/10/2025 admission Minimum Data Set (MDS) documented no Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) interview was completed; the resident was rarely… …
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