Based on observations, interviews, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure a safe, functional, and sanitary environment by failing to implement the smoking policy. The facility failed to ensure residents extinguished cigarette butts in non-combustible, self-closing ashtrays and failed to ensure staff smoked only in authorized areas. Specifically, cigarette butts were found on the ground around the resident patio, in flowerpots, and in a rock bed near the dining room exit leading to the staff smoking area.Based on observations, interviews, and facility policy review, the facility failed to ensure a safe, functional, and sanitary environment by failing to implement the smoking policy. …
F926 citations in Arkansas
Environmental Deficiencies
Have policies on smoking.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2024
Arkansas cites F926 more often than its own record predicts
3.17 times the share F926 takes of citations nationally.
Of every deficiency written in Arkansas in 2024, this is the portion that was F926.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Arkansas surveyors wrote
F926 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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