Based on facility documentation and staff interviews, the facility failed to develop, implement, and maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff consistent with their expected roles, by failing to provide consistent food service training and reliable documentation of in-service training to kitchen staff, as well as accurate training records to reflect staff training attendance. Unsafe kitchen practices can lead to widespread foodborne illness outbreaks. This affected all kitchen staff members due to the facility's inability to produce training records with dates and signatures verifying staff attendance. Training was also produced for a staff member with dates prior to his date of hire. …
F940 citations in Florida
Administration Deficiencies
Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program for all new and existing staff members.
Data as of , released by CMS on October 8, 2026. Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog.
Against expectation — 2025
Florida cites F940 less often than its own record predicts
0.33 times the national share — cited less often here than elsewhere.
Of every deficiency written in Florida in 2025, this is the portion that was F940.
Each state is measured against its own expected share, not against other states.
In the surveyor’s words
What Florida surveyors wrote
F940 findings written in Florida, 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.
The short window
Recent years
| Year | Share of Florida citations | vs expected |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.04% | 0.48× |
| 2025 | 0.03% | 0.33× |
Shares of citations, not counts: earlier years hold fewer inspections.
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