Based on observations, interviews, and record reviews the facility failed to ensure that a resident who has a prosthesis is provided care and assistance, consistent with professional standards of practice, the residents' goals and preferences, to wear and be able to use the prosthetic device for 1 of 5 (Resident #17) residents reviewed for orthotic devices, in that: Resident #17 needed a back brace as ordered by her neurosurgeon, and the facility failed to escalate their efforts to secure the back brace for Resident # 17. This failure could place residents at risk for health status decline without the support and therapeutic effects of prostheses devices. …
F696 citations in Texas
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide appropriate care/assistance for a resident with a prosthesis.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2023
Texas cites F696 more often than its own record predicts
3.56 times the share F696 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Texas in 2023, this is the portion that was F696.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Texas surveyors wrote
F696 findings written in Texas, 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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