Based on interview with administrator (employee #10) and review of facility policies and procedures, it was determined that facility failed to determine if they are going to have a relationship with any blood bank services (by contract) in order to provide those services at the facility. Findings include: 1. Facility administrator (employee #10) was interview on 09/10/2024 at 11:15 AM and it was requested information to him in relation of a laboratory services as an option to be provided by their facility. 2. Facility administrator (employee #10) stated on interview on 09/10/2024 at 11:28 AM that at the moment facility did not have any contract with a laboratory service in order to make available blood bank services in according to the scope permitted to a SNF. …
F771 citations in Puerto Rico
Administration Deficiencies
Ensure laboratory services, blood blanks and transfusion services provided on-site meet requirements for certified laboratories.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Puerto Rico cites F771 more often than its own record predicts
214.36 times the share F771 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Puerto Rico in 2024, this is the portion that was F771.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Puerto Rico surveyors wrote
F771 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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