Based on interview and document review, the facility failed to ensure a written agreement was established with an outside dialysis provider that furnished dialysis services to facility residents. This deficient practice had the potential to affect all residents who received dialysis services at an outside facility.Findings include:Review of facility documentation identified that residents received outpatient hemodialysis services from an outside dialysis provider.Review of facility contracts and agreements failed to identify a written agreement between the facility and the dialysis provider that defined the services provided and the responsibilities of the facility and the dialysis provider related to the residents' dialysis care.During an interview on 8/3/26 at 12:48 p.m., Administrator… …
F840 citations in Minnesota
Administration Deficiencies
Employ or obtain outside professional resources to provide services in the nursing home when the facility does not employ a qualified professional to furnish a required service.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Minnesota cites F840 more often than its own record predicts
1.65 times the share F840 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Minnesota in 2024, this is the portion that was F840.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Minnesota surveyors wrote
F840 findings written in Minnesota, 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.
Based on interview and document review, the facility failed to provide the facility agreements for contracted services which had the potential to affect all 46 residents residing in the facility reviewed during the extended survey. Findings include: A copy of any agreement the facility had such as dental, hospital transfer, and/or psychiatric services was requested. The only agreement received was a Nursing Facility Services Agreement dated 8/26/13, identified the facility had an agreement with LifeCare Medical Center for hospice services. During document review on 11/6/24, at 12:47 p.m. the administrator confirmed he had been unable to locate any current agreements other than the one hospice agreement. No further information was provided.
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