Based on facility policy review, medical record review, observation, and interviews, the facility failed to notify the physician in a timely manner regarding abnormal laboratory results for 1 resident (Resident #39) of 24 residents reviewed for labs. The findings include: Review of the facility policy titled, Laboratory Services, dated 9/15/2023, showed .Promptly notify the ordering physician; physician assistant; nurse practitioner; or clinical nurse specialist of laboratory results that fall outside the clinical reference ranges in accordance to the facility policies and procedures for notification of a practitioner or per the physician's order . …
F773 citations in Tennessee
Administration Deficiencies
Provide or obtain laboratory tests/services when ordered and promptly tell the ordering practitioner of the results.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Tennessee cites F773 more often than its own record predicts
1.11 times the share F773 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Tennessee in 2024, this is the portion that was F773.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Tennessee surveyors wrote
F773 findings written in Tennessee, 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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