Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to revise, implement, and enforce their smoking policy for 2 of 2 sampled smoking residents (R11 and R17) who kept cigarettes and/or lighters on their person or were found smoking in their rooms. This had the potential to affect all 48 residents in the facility. Findings include: R11's accepted 8/22/26, Minimum Data Set (MDS) identified that R11 was admitted [DATE] with a diagnoses of conversion disorder (neurological symptoms) with seizure or convulsions, depression and epilepsy. R11's current, undated care plan identified he was at risk for activities of daily living (ADL's) related to impaired balance. R11 required partial/moderate assistance with bathing, dressing and toilet use. …
F926 citations in Minnesota
Environmental Deficiencies
Have policies on smoking.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2023
Minnesota cites F926 less often than its own record predicts
0.87 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Minnesota in 2023, 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 Minnesota surveyors wrote
F926 findings written in Minnesota, 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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