Based on interviews, record reviews, document review, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure residents who received mechanically altered diets were provided a meal consistent with their prescribed diet and of the appropriate texture and form to meet their individual needs. Further, the facility failed to ensure policies addressing the criteria for foods consistent with a mechanical soft diet were developed, implemented, and available to staff. Staff were not knowledgeable on what foods were acceptable for residents with orders for a mechanical soft diet. This failure affected 23 residents with orders for mechanical soft diets. …
F805 citations in Alabama
Food in a form residents can eat · Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2023
Alabama cites F805 more often than its own record predicts
1.47 times the share F805 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Alabama in 2023, this is the portion that was F805.
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In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F805 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 observation, record review, interviews, and review of facility policy, the facility failed to serve food in a form designed to meet the individual needs for seven residents on a mechanically altered diet out of 80 total residents that received food from the kitchen. Findings include: The facility's policy titled, Dietary: Therapeutic Diets dated October 2020, revealed the intent was to assure that residents received and consumed foods in the appropriate form and/or the appropriate nutritive content as prescribed by a physician. The Diet Master dated 4/20/2021, revealed the facility had seven residents that received a mechanical soft diet. …
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