Based on observation, interviews, policy and record review, the facility failed to obtain a physician order for Occupational Therapy (OT) prior to commencing OT for 1 of 1 sampled resident reviewed for rehabilitation (Rehab) services, Resident #146. The findings included: The policy of the facility, titled, Physician's Therapy Orders, dated April 2022 documented, Therapy services must be ordered by a licensed physician / licensed nurse practitioner. All therapy services provided to the resident must be ordered in writing by the resident's physician / nurse practitioner. Record review documented Resident #146 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses that included Congestive Heart Failure, Type 2 Diabetes, and Hypertension. …
F826 citations in Florida
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
Provide specialized rehabilitative services by qualified personnel, when ordered for a resident by a doctor.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Florida cites F826 more often than its own record predicts
3.72 times the share F826 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Florida in 2024, this is the portion that was F826.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Florida surveyors wrote
F826 findings written in Florida, 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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