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 New Mexico. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
New Mexico cites F693 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.15×
0.15 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of New Mexico citations0.11%
Of every deficiency written in New Mexico in 2025, this is the portion that was F693.
New Mexico0.11%
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 New Mexico surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in New Mexico, 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.
E · No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternApril 16, 2025
Based on record review, observations, and interviews, the facility failed to ensure the PEG (Percutaneous (through the skin) Endoscopic (a medical procedure that uses a scope to look into the digestive system) Gastrostomy (a surgical procedure that creates an opening through the abdominal wall) tube (a device utilized to provide liquid nutrition and medications, via a tube into the stomach or intestine) for 1 (R #1) of 1 (R #1) resident, was managed according to current acceptable standards of practice to ensure safety of the resident. This deficient practice could cause significant health problems such as infection or displacement of the tube The findings are:
A. …
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