Based on resident and staff interviews, record review, review of the facility documents titled, PBJ (payroll-based journal) Staffing Data Report, and review of the facility policy titled, Staffing Policy, the facility failed to ensure Registered Nurse (RN) coverage was available in the facility for eight consecutive hours daily. This failure had the potential to negatively impact all residents at the facility.Findings included:Review of the facility's policy titled, Staffing Policy, dated January 2025 documented Procedure. 4. Staffing will include a Registered Nurse (RN) 8 hours a day. 5. The nursing services department will be under the authority and responsibility of the director of Nursing service who is a licensed registered nurse and who works as least eight hours a day. …
F727 citations in Georgia
Registered nurse coverage · Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies
Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Georgia cites F727 less often than its own record predicts
0.93 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Georgia in 2025, this is the portion that was F727.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Georgia surveyors wrote
F727 findings written in Georgia, 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.
Based on record review and staff interview, it was determined that the facility failed to provide adequate staff coverage to prevent the Director of Nursing (DON) from working as a charge nurse when the census was greater than 60 residents for seven of the eight months in 2023. Findings include: Review of the facility Resident Census and Conditions of Residents Form CMS-672 dated 7/25/2023 revealed that the current facility census was 90 residents. Review of document Days working on the med-cart revealed the DON work as a medication and charge nurse on the following days 1/3/23, 1/4/23, 1/5/23, 2/1/23, 2/4/23, 2/5/23, 2/17/23, 2/20/23, 2/21/23, 3/3/23, 4/7/28, 4/9/23, 4/16/23, 5/8/23, 6/16/23, 6/20/23, 6/23/23, 7/14/23, 7/15/23, 7/16/23, 7/20,23, 7/23/23, 7/28/23 and 7/30/23. …
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Recent years
| Year | Share of Georgia citations | vs expected |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.60% | 0.87× |
| 2024 | 0.40% | 0.75× |
| 2025 | 0.40% | 0.93× |
Shares of citations, not counts: earlier years hold fewer inspections.
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