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F0826
Provide specialized rehabilitative services by qualified personnel, when ordered for a resident by a doctor.
Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies
What F0826 means
F0826is a federal nursing home deficiency tag issued by surveyors under CMS's State Operations Manual, Appendix PP. Facilities receive an F0826 citation when an inspector finds the facility failed to: provide specialized rehabilitative services by qualified personnel, when ordered for a resident by a doctor.
Each citation carries a scope and severity codefrom A through L. Codes J, K, and L indicate “immediate jeopardy” — the most serious level, used when a facility's failure has caused or is likely to cause serious injury, harm, impairment, or death. Lower letters indicate less severe or less widespread failures.
Facilities most cited for F0826
Top 50 facilities by number of F0826 citations in the current three-year window.
Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog, Nursing Home Care Compare Health Deficiencies dataset. Rolling 3-year window.