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 Tennessee 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 Tennessee surveyors wrote
F809 findings written in Tennessee, 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, widespreadApril 13, 2022
Based on facility policy review, facility documentation review, medical record review, and interview, the facility failed to ensure there was no more than 14 hours between a substantial evening meal and breakfast the following day.
The findings include:
Review of the facility's policy titled, Frequency of Meals, dated September 1, 2017, revealed, .It is the policy of this facility that each resident shall receive at least three (3) meals daily, as well as an evening or bedtime snack .At least three (3) meals or their equivalent are served daily, at regular times, with not more than a fourteen (14) hour span between the evening meal and breakfast . …
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