Based on review of policies and procedures with the Compliance Officer (employee #2) on 09/24/2024 at 1:17 PM, it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that residents who require dialysis receive such services, consistent with professional standards of practice, the comprehensive person-centered care plan, and the residents' goals and preferences. Findings include: 1. During the review of the procedure's manual, the policy and procedure with professional standards of dialysis practice. The Compliance Officer (employee #2) was interviewed to see if they could find it in the manual. The facility failed to not ensure that it had a standard of practice on the plan of care and goals for getting the patient to use the dialysis.
F698 citations in Puerto Rico
Dialysis · Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Puerto Rico cites F698 less often than its own record predicts
0.47 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Puerto Rico in 2024, this is the portion that was F698.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Puerto Rico surveyors wrote
F698 findings written in Puerto Rico, 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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