Number of residents sampled: Number of residents cited: Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure a written plan of care included both the most recent hospice plan of care and a description of the services provided by the long-term care (LTC) facility to maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being for one (Resident #84) of one resident reviewed. The findings include: Review of the admission Record for Resident #84 revealed the facility admitted the resident on 10/11/2024 with diagnoses that included malignant melanoma (cancer) of skin. Review of Physician's Orders for Resident #84 revealed an order dated 01/20/2025 for [name of hospice] to eval [evaluate] and admit the resident. …
F849 citations in Arkansas
Administration Deficiencies
Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Arkansas cites F849 less often than its own record predicts
0.19 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Arkansas in 2024, this is the portion that was F849.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Arkansas surveyors wrote
F849 findings written in Arkansas, 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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