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 Texas. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Texas cites F809 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.76×
0.76 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of Texas citations0.15%
Of every deficiency written in Texas in 2025, this is the portion that was F809.
Texas0.15%
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 Texas surveyors wrote
F809 findings written in Texas, 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.
H · Actual harm, patternJuly 27, 2023
Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure that each resident received, and the facility provided at least three meals daily, at regular times comparable to normal mealtimes in the community for five (Resident #1, Resident #2, Resident #3, Resident #4, and Resident #5) out of five residents reviewed for timely meals, in that:
The facility failed to serve breakfast to Resident #1, Resident #2, Resident #3, Resident #4, and Resident #5 until over an hour after the scheduled mealtime on 07/27/23. …
E · No harm, potential for more than minimal, patternSeptember 12, 2026
Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to ensure that each resident received, and the facility provided at least three meals daily, at regular times comparable to normal mealtimes in the community for 3 of 3 (lunch on 09/08/2026, 09/09/2026, and 09/10/2026) meals observed for dietary services.The facility failed to serve the 09/08/2026, 09/09/2026, and 09/10/2026 lunch meals on time at the scheduled time based on the meal postings.This failure could place residents at risk for decreased meal satisfaction, decreased intake, loss of appetite, side effects from medications given without food, and diminished quality of life.The findings included:Observation on 09/08/2026 at 12:00 p.m. …
C · No harm, potential for minimal, widespreadOctober 11, 2023
Based on observation, interview and record review the facility failed to ensure each resident received and the facility provided at least three meals daily, at regular times comparable to normal mealtimes in the community or in accordance with resident needs, preferences, requests and plan of care for one meal (Lunch on 09/27/23) observed for frequency of meals.
The facility failed to serve the 09/27/23 lunch meal on time at the scheduled time.
This failure could place residents at risk for decreased meal satisfaction, decreased intake, loss of appetite, side effects from medication given without food, and diminished quality of life.
The findings include:
Record review of Resident #5's, undated, face sheet reflected a [AGE] year-old female who was admitted to the facility on [DATE]. …
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