Based on record review and interviews, the facility failed to ensure a contract was signed between the facility and Hospice Agency for 1 of 1 resident (Resident #4 [R4]) reviewed with services from St [NAME] Hospice. Finding: On 9/8/25 at 11:05 a.m., during entrance conference with the Administrator, a surveyor requested to review the Hospice contracts. On 9/9/25, a surveyor reviewed R4's clinical record who was admitted to the facility in April 2025. The resident was transferred to St. [NAME] Hospital where a contract was signed between the resident and St. [NAME] Hospice on 4/29/25 to provide Hospice services to the resident while at the facility. As of 9/9/25, R4 was still receiving Hospice services at the facility from St. [NAME] Hospice. …
F849 citations in Maine
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 — 2025
Maine cites F849 less often than its own record predicts
0.96 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Maine in 2025, 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 Maine surveyors wrote
F849 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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