Medical records · Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
F842 in Alabama. Pick another state for the same tag.
Against expectation — 2025
Alabama cites F842 less often than its own record predicts
Versus expected share0.67×
0.67 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Share of Alabama citations1.49%
Of every deficiency written in Alabama in 2025, this is the portion that was F842.
Alabama1.49%
National2.24%
Share of all citations that were F842.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Alabama surveyors wrote
F842 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.
J · Immediate jeopardy, isolatedOctober 22, 2021
Based on interviews and review of Resident Identifier (RI) #1's medical records, Potter and Perry's FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING NINTH EDITION, the facility's policy titled, New/Re-Admit physician's orders [MEDICAL RECORD OR PHYSICIAN ORDER] . As a result of this deficient practice, RI #1 did not receive the ordered medication during his/her stay at the facility from 5/21/2021-6/01/2021 and suffered a significant medication error.
RI #1 was admitted to the facility on [DATE] from a local hospital. The transfer medication list from the hospital listed [MEDICATION(S)] Anhydrous 0.5 mg three tablets twice a day as a medication to be continued. …
D · No harm, potential for more than minimal, isolatedApril 2, 2026
Based on interviews, record review and review of facility policies titled, Discontinued Medication and Charting and Documentation, the facility failed to maintain Resident Identifier (RI) #81's medical records in a manner to ensure the record was complete and accurately reflected RI #81's condition and consultation of RI #81's attending physician. Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) #9 failed to document in RI #81's medical record when she notified the attending physician of RI #81's allergy to aspirin after RI #81 was readmitted on [DATE] from the hospital with an order for aspirin to be administered for six weeks. The facility failed to identify in RI #81's medical record what would be provided in place of the aspirin. …
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