Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times.
F809 in Arkansas. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Arkansas cites F809 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.95×
0.95 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of Arkansas citations0.18%
Of every deficiency written in Arkansas in 2025, this is the portion that was F809.
Arkansas0.18%
National0.19%
Share of all citations that were F809.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Arkansas surveyors wrote
F809 findings written in Arkansas, 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.
E · No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternMay 21, 2025
Based on observation, interview, and review of the mealtime schedule, the facility failed to ensure all residents who received meals from the kitchen were consistently being served at regularly scheduled times and failed to provide the residents with a dependable eating schedule for 2 of 2 meal services observed.
The findings are:
1. On 05/18/25, a document titled, Meal Times, was provided and revealed mealtimes in the facility were 7:30 AM for breakfast, 12:00 PM for lunch, and 5:00 PM for dinner.
2. On 5/18/2025 at 1:30 PM, the first food cart for Hulan hall was pushed into the dining room by Dietary Aide (DA) #5. At 2:02 PM, the first resident received a meal tray in the dining room.
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C · No harm, potential for minimal, widespreadSeptember 13, 2019
Based on observation and interview, the facility failed to ensure meals were consistently served at regular, scheduled times to prevent prolonged waiting periods for meals and potential hunger for residents who received meals from 1 of 1 kitchen. The failed practice had the potential to affect 124 residents who received meals from the kitchen (total census: 124), as documented on the Diet List provided by the Dietary Employee #5 on 9/11/19. The findings are:
1. The facility meal times, provided by Dietary Employee #5 on 9/12/19, were as follows: Breakfast at 7:00 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., lunch at 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m., and dinner at 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
2. On 9/10/19 at 2:19 p.m., Resident #100 was asked about the food being late. Resident #100 stated, Sometimes the meals are late.
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