Based on facility policy review, medical record review, meal tray ticket review, observations, and interviews, the facility failed to ensure the resident had an adaptive device placed properly for 1 resident (Resident #5) of 2 residents reviewed for adaptive devices. The findings include: Review of the facility's policy titled, Assistive Devices - Special Eating Equipment, revised 4/25/2023, revealed .facility provides residents with special eating equipment and assistive devices as deemed necessary .ensure .resident .properly use .devices when consuming meals .installing plate guards .provide .appropriate staff assistance .to ensure .residents .use the assistive devices when eating . …
F810 citations in Tennessee
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Provide special eating equipment and utensils for residents who need them and appropriate assistance.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Tennessee cites F810 more often than its own record predicts
1.82 times the share F810 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Tennessee in 2025, this is the portion that was F810.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Tennessee surveyors wrote
F810 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.
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