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 Nevada. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Nevada cites F693 more often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share2.10×
2.10 times the share F693 takes of citations nationally.
Share of Nevada citations1.47%
Of every deficiency written in Nevada in 2025, this is the portion that was F693.
Nevada1.47%
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 Nevada surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in Nevada, 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 24, 2026
Based on interview, record review, and document review, the facility failed to verify a resident's prescribed enteral nutritional orders and ensure the necessary enteral formula was available prior to accepting the resident for admission, and after admission failed to implement an enteral nutritional regimen for 1 of 37 sampled residents (Resident 128). The deficient practice had the potential to result in delayed implementation of the resident's prescribed enteral nutrition regimen, inadequate nutritional and hydration support, compromised nutritional status, and avoidable decline.Additional deficient practice was identified in connection with this F693 citation. …
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