Establish a governing body that is legally responsible for establishing and implementing policies for managing and operating the facility and appoints a properly licensed administrator responsible for managing the facility.
F837 in South Carolina. Pick another state for the same tag.
No F837 citations were recorded in South Carolina 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 South Carolina surveyors wrote
F837 findings written in South Carolina, 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.
L · Immediate jeopardy, widespreadApril 13, 2023
Based on review of facility policy, record review, and interviews, the facility failed to have an effective governing body in place to ensure proper management and operation of the facility's financial resources. Specifically, the facility's governing body failed to have a system in place to ensure all financial obligations were met to guarantee care and services are provided to the residents. This failure had the potential to affect all 86 residents residing in the facility.
On April 13, 2023, at 1:31 PM, the Administrator was provided with an Immediate Jeopardy (IJ) Template indicating IJ existed at F837 with a scope and severity level of L.
The facility was unable to present an acceptable plan of removal of the immediate jeopardy. …
F · No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadFebruary 13, 2026
Based on observation, record review, and interview, the facility failed to provide evidence of having a governing body, ensuring a facility assessment was complete to assess the overall management and operation of the facility, a failure to develop and implement bylaws and operational policies for the facility which resulted in a failure to ensure facility's Ethics and Compliance Program was implemented. These failures resulted in vendors not getting paid and a disruption in delivery of food and supplies to residents and had the potential to affect all residents living in the facility. …
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