Based on interview, the facility failed to demonstrate a good faith effort to secure a written transfer agreement with a local hospital to ensure the safe and orderly transfer of residents for care and treatment. Finding: On 8/20/24 at 1:50 p.m., in an interview with a surveyor, the Administrator stated she was unable to locate a written transfer agreement with the local hospital which was approved for participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The Administrator stated she had contacted the office of the hospital's President and was told there was no written transfer agreement and that it was not needed by the hospital. The Administrator confirmed that she was told there had only been a verbal agreement between the facility and the hospital for the transfer of residents. …
F843 citations in Maine
Administration Deficiencies
Have an agreement with at least one or more hospitals certified by Medicare or Medicaid to make sure residents can be moved quickly to the hospital when they need medical care.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Maine cites F843 more often than its own record predicts
7.62 times the share F843 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Maine in 2024, this is the portion that was F843.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Maine surveyors wrote
F843 findings written in Maine, 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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