Based on record review and staff interview, the facility policy for food brought in from an outside source failed to ensure safe and sanitary storage, handling, and consumption.Findings are as follows:Record review of a facility policy titled, Food Brought in From Outside the Facility Policy, dated 6/1/2021, states in part, [NAME] Home has no responsibility should any adverse reaction occur from food(s) when it has been brought into the facility from an outside source .The facility's policy failed to ensure the following requirements that are within regulations:-that staff assist the resident in accessing and consuming the food, if the resident is not able to do so independently-help visitors and family to understand safe food handling practices including, but not limited to, safe cooling… …
F813 citations in Rhode Island
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
Have a policy regarding use and storage of foods brought to residents by family and other visitors.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Rhode Island cites F813 less often than its own record predicts
0.99 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Rhode Island in 2025, this is the portion that was F813.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Rhode Island surveyors wrote
F813 findings written in Rhode Island, 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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