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 Kentucky. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Kentucky cites F809 more often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share2.92×
2.92 times the share F809 takes of citations nationally.
Share of Kentucky citations0.56%
Of every deficiency written in Kentucky in 2025, this is the portion that was F809.
Kentucky0.56%
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 Kentucky surveyors wrote
F809 findings written in Kentucky, 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.
F · No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadMay 1, 2026
Based on observation, interview, and review of the facility's policies, the facility failed to consistently provide snacks for all residents in the facility, which had the potential to affect any resident who received snacks from the dietary department.The findings include: Review of the facility's policy titled, Offering/Serving Bedtime Snacks, undated, revealed it was the practice of the facility to offer and serve residents with a nourishing snack. Further review the snacks were to be in accordance with the residents' needs, preferences and requests at bedtime on a daily basis. …
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