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 Missouri. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Missouri cites F809 more often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share1.53×
1.53 times the share F809 takes of citations nationally.
Share of Missouri citations0.29%
Of every deficiency written in Missouri in 2025, this is the portion that was F809.
Missouri0.29%
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 Missouri surveyors wrote
F809 findings written in Missouri, 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, isolatedApril 17, 2026
Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to provide meals in a timely manner in accordance with each residents' preferences when staff failed to provide a meal tray to one resident (Resident #2) during scheduled mealtimes. The facility census was 100.Review of the facility's policy titled, Frequency of Meals, dated 2001, showed the following: -Each resident shall receive at least three meals daily, at times comparable to typical mealtimes in the community, or in accordance with resident needs, preferences, requests and the plan of care;-The facility will serve at least three meals or their equivalent daily at schedule times. …
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