F159: Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home
F159 is one of the federal requirements every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home must meet. CMS describes it as: Properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home.
It sits in CMS's resident rights category.
CMS Health Deficiencies file, data as of September 1, 2026. The files hold each home's last three standard inspections and three years of complaint visits.
How seriously inspectors rate it
Every citation gets a letter for how much harm inspectors found and how many residents it touched (how to read the letters). 0.0% of F159 citations came from a complaint visit rather than a routine inspection.
By letter: E 1.
What inspectors wrote
Three recent F159 citations from different states, quoted from the inspectors' statements of deficiencies (CMS form 2567). Names are removed by CMS.
Inspectors wrote, July 13, 2017, scope and severity EBased on observation, resident group interview, staff interview, and facility document review, the facility staff failed to ensure residents had access to their personal funds 7 days a week.
Portsmouth Health and Rehab, Portsmouth, VA
Most recent F159 citations
| Inspection | Home | Town | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 13, 2017 | Portsmouth Health and Rehab | Portsmouth, VA | E |
F159 citations by state
Counts depend on how many homes a state has and how often its inspectors visit, so a larger number is not by itself a worse record.
| State | Citations |
|---|---|
| Virginia | 1 |
By inspection year: 2017 1.
Common questions
- What is F159 in a nursing home inspection?
- F159 is the federal requirement to "properly hold, secure, and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home". CMS files it under resident rights. A home cited under F159 did not meet that requirement at the inspection.
- How often is F159 cited?
- The CMS files as of September 1, 2026 list 1 F159 citations at 1 nursing homes, 0 of them in the 12 months to that date. 0.0% were rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.
- Is a F159 citation serious?
- It depends on the letter. Most F159 citations (100.0%) were rated as potential for more than minimal harm, D to F. None in the current files is at the immediate jeopardy level.
The interpretive guidance inspectors use for each F-tag is CMS's State Operations Manual, Appendix PP. NursingHomeClear reports the citations as CMS records them and is not affiliated with CMS. All F-tags · Methodology