Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure that all staff were tested two times a week for Covid-19 (virus that causes a variety of respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological diseases] which is characterized mainly by fever and cough). At the time of the recertification survey the facility should have been testing staff twice weekly due to facility having a Covid-19 outbreak (when 1 covid-19 positive staff or resident is identified) . This deficient practice could affect all 57 residents in the facility (residents were identified by census list provided by the Administrator on 08/31/22) and could likely lead to lack of identifying Covid-19 positive staff or residents and continue the spread of the infection within the facility. The findings are: A. …
F886 citations in New Mexico
Infection Control Deficiencies
Perform COVID19 testing on residents and staff.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
No F886 citations were recorded in New Mexico for 2025. That means none appear in the CMS file for that year — not that the requirement does not apply.
In the surveyor’s words
What New Mexico surveyors wrote
F886 findings written in New Mexico, 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.
F · No harm, potential for more than minimal, widespreadSeptember 9, 2022
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