Based on the South Dakota Department of Health (SD DOH) Facility Reported Event (FRI), SD DOH complaint report, record review, interview, professional reference review, and policy review, the provider failed to provide appropriate enteral (passing through the digestive tract) feeding care regarding using a new enteral feeding bag for administering formula and safely storing nutritional formula for one of one sampled resident (7) who received nutritional formula through a feeding tube (a tube surgically placed through the abdomen into the stomach to administer liquid nutrition, fluids and medications) when an enteral feeding bag was not replaced with a new bag for administration of nutritional formula to the resident when a new bag was not found by the director of nursing (DON) B.Findings… …
F693 citations in South Dakota
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.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2023
South Dakota cites F693 less often than its own record predicts
0.48 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in South Dakota in 2023, this is the portion that was F693.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What South Dakota surveyors wrote
F693 findings written in South Dakota, 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.
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