Based on interviews, resident record review, and review of a facility policy titled Behavioral Health Care Services, The facility failed to ensure a behavior management process was implemented to ensure staff identified, evaluated, and implemented interventions to manage and address known resident behaviors that affected residents' safety. The facility failed to manage unsafe behaviors related to noncompliance with the facility's Smoking Policy and failed to manage unsafe wandering behaviors related to noncompliance with the facility elopement and wandering policy. The facility failed to recognize the need for adequate supervision and monitoring of residents with unsafe behaviors creating the risk for harming themselves and others in the facility. …
F740 citations in Alabama
Behavioral health services · Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Alabama cites F740 more often than its own record predicts
22.70 times the share F740 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Alabama in 2025, this is the portion that was F740.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F740 findings written in Alabama, 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 interviews, resident record reviews, review of the facility policy titled BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, the facility failed to provide immediate and necessary behavioral interventions and supervision to prevent Resident Identifier (RI) #290, a resident exhibiting physically aggressive behaviors, from physically abusing RI #288. On 08/15/2023 RI #290 displayed physically aggressive behaviors toward the facility staff, ramming them with his/her walker and swinging at them with a dispenser for hand sanitizer. RI #290 was then allowed to walk into a day room area with other residents and staff who were preparing for lunch. RI #290 hit RI #288 in the face and chest. This affected RI #288 one of five residents reviewed for behaviors. Findings include: Cross-reference F 600. …
Based on record review, interview, and a policy titled . Behavior Management Program the facility failed to timely assess the behavior change and timely implement additional behavior interventions for Resident Identifier (RI) #90 a resident with a history of wandering behavior. Specifically: On 04/16/2025 RI #90 wandered into RI #57's room. RI #57 had a diagnoses of dementia with mood disturbance and staff had been made aware on 04/15/2025 that he/she did not want RI #90 in his/her room. Although staff were aware no interventions were in place to ensure RI #90 did not wander into RI #57's room. …
The short window
Recent years
| Year | Share of Alabama citations | vs expected |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.52% | 1.97× |
| 2024 | 1.82% | 7.36× |
| 2025 | 5.97% | 22.70× |
Shares of citations, not counts: earlier years hold fewer inspections.
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