Based on record review, interview, facility policy review, and a review of Alabama State Committee of Public Health Administrative Code, the Medical Director failed to provide oversight to ensure residents' end-of-life wishes were honored, including completion of the Alabama portable physician do not resuscitate (DNR) form and oversight of the development and implementation of a facility process for rescinding a DNR order in emergent situations. The failure created the likelihood of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) being incorrectly provided or withheld. It was determined the facility's non-compliance with one or more requirements of participation had caused or was likely to cause, serious injury, serious harm, serious impairment, or death to residents. …
F841 citations in Alabama
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies
Designate a physician to serve as medical director responsible for implementation of resident care policies and coordination of medical care in the facility.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Alabama cites F841 more often than its own record predicts
29.96 times the share F841 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Alabama in 2025, this is the portion that was F841.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F841 findings written in Alabama, 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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