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.
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No F809 citations were recorded in District of Columbia for 2025. That means none appear in the CMS file for that year — not that the requirement does not apply.
In the surveyor’s words
What District of Columbia surveyors wrote
F809 findings written in District of Columbia, 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.
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedFebruary 13, 2026
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Based on residents' interviews, observation, and staff interviews, the facility staff failed to ensure residents received pm snacks. The findings included:A policy titled, Offering/Serving Bedtime Snacks with a review date of 08/15/25 instructed nursing staff to offer bedtime snacks to residents in accordance with resident's needs, preferences and requests on a daily basis.During the task of Resident Council meeting on 01/14/26 starting at 2:43 PM held with multiple residents from different units in the facility stated that they are not provided with pm snacks. Additionally, Resident #10 stated that they do have pm snacks for specific residents and their names are on the snack. …
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